At right-angles to the ice-house, a path leads between two box-hedge mazes to the "pleasure-garden" based on water in all shapes and forms : islands, waterfalls and streams surrounded by century-old trees and also a more recent arboretum.

Move the mouse on the image below, and the tree will spit you of water!

To entertain, to astonish, to charm, to add a further dimension to their parks and gardens, men have since classical times used artificial devices to animate nature and create paradises of escapism, dream, nostalgia or desire.

The Renaissance was fascinated by hydraulic mechanisms which were particularly fashionable in France in the 17th and 18th centuries. La Renaissance a raffolé de ces mécanismes d'eau qui furent très à la mode en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIème siècles.

With a basis in family tradition, "surprise" fountains have been re-created, in association with follies and ancient tales : the Chinese Bridge, the Spring of the Muses, the Crystal Tree, the Temple of Serenity, the Green Room and the Tortoise Waterfall are all to be found in the water-gardens.