Quite a story...
The Tapis Vert 'Mansion was built in 1882 by Mirabeau's great-nephew, a "barrel" of the revolution.
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"First Offering" by Arnold Bronze of Susse Frères
"First Offering" by Arnold Bronze of Susse Frères
"First Offering" by Arnold Bronze of Susse Frères
The "Bélier Bollée", a 19th century hydraulic pump
allowed a water tower to be supplied from a small pond.
It took nine liters to lift one liter 56 m higher.
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The park, formerly maintained by six gardeners and currently undergoing restoration, is decorated with ponds.
"First Offering" by Arnold Bronze of Susse Frères
"Pan with the Flute" by Ary Biter
Bronze of Susse
A natural and protected space
The Tapis Vert, located in the heart of the Normandie Maine Regional Natural Park, is a remarkable natural space, a protected site classified ZNIEFF 2 and NATURA 2000 for the wetland.
The fauna and flora inventory was carried out by the Normandie Maine Park, the Avaloirs Ornithological Group, Mayenne Nature Environnement and the Normandy Mammological Group for bats.
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Trees of considerable size adorn the park, for which six gardeners were assigned to its maintenance at the beginning of the 20th century: Giant Thuja (Thuja plicata), Sequoia sempervirens Wellingtonia, Cryptomeria japonica, avenues of Rhodendrons.
Rehabilitation actions are being implemented with the support of the Normandy Maine Regional Park and the help of students from the Sées Agricultural High School who have been working for six years on the restoration of a peat bog under the direction of Renaud Jégat.
Cultural activities on site, Les Rencontres du Tapis Vert
The Rencontres du Tapis Vert association was created in 1983 to support amateur practices, at first opera singing and chamber music. Then the Tapis Vert member community opened up to the practice of traditional music and dance, theater, clown, and finally the circus with the provision of a 400-seat circus tent and the creation of a circus school.
The association still supports amateur practices in the form of workshop supervised by professionals in the performing arts or teaching, but also welcomes professionals during creative residencies, recording, and rehearsals.
The Tapis Vert offers illustrations of these workshop and practices in the form of public classes, premieres of shows following residencies, and end-of-year activities at the circus school.