Access & Information
International Garden Festival | Hortillonnages Amiens
AMIENS > Île aux Fagots – Walking route
Access from Pont de Beauvillé
43 chemin de halage – 80000 Amiens
Free and open parking at Parmentier
Information: +33 6 78 53 55 92
Free admission
Opening hours
– May to June and September to October: open Wednesday to Sunday from 12:30 pm to 7:00 pm
– July and August: open Tuesday to Sunday from 12:30 pm to 7:00 pm
– Public holidays: open from 12:30 pm to 7:00 pm
CAMON > Port à Fumier – Boat route
Clermont Pond – Access to the boarding pontoon
35 rue Roger Allou – 80450 Camon (3 kms from city center)
On-site parking available
Bus No. 7 from the city center of Amiens
Information: +33 6 78 53 55 92
Reservation only
Opening hours
– May to June and September to October: open Wednesday to Friday from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm, and weekends from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
– July and August: open Tuesday to Friday from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm, and weekends from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
– Public holidays: open from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Walking Access
ÎLE AUX FAGOTS – Walking route
43 chemin de halage – 80000 Amiens
In Amiens, access Île aux Fagots and Île Robinson via the towpath or Étang de Rivery via Chemin du Malaquis. Free admission. As the Hortillonnages d’Amiens is a protected natural site, animals are not allowed. Strollers must be left at the reception.
Guided tours are available for groups of 10 or more people, upon reservation via email at: festival@artetjardins-hdf.com
The team of mediators and volunteers in Civic Service welcomes you, provides information, and offers spontaneous mediation along your route…
For any inquiries, you can reach us at: festival@artetjardins-hdf.com
Boat Route
PORT À FUMIER – Boat route Boarding pontoon
35 rue Roger Allou – 80450 Camon
In CAMON, rent a boat for 2.5 hours and navigate through the different plots around Étang de Clermont.
Reservation online: here
The boat rental rates vary based on the number of people, from 1 to a maximum of 6.
€20 for 1-2 people / €27 for 3-4 people / €32 for 5-6 people / Free for children under 3 years old / ASCO fee per person: €1 for 11 years and older, €0.50 for 3-10 years old
Animals are not allowed in the boats. Strollers must be left at the reception.
Guided tours are available for groups of 10 or more people upon reservation via email at: festival@artetjardins-hdf.com
The team of mediators and volunteers in Civic Service welcomes you, provides information, and offers spontaneous mediation along your route…
For any inquiries, you can reach us at: festival@artetjardins-hdf.com
Wellness Times Experiences
ÎLE AUX FAGOTS – Wellness Times Experiences
43 chemin de halage – 80000 Amiens
As part of the Festival, Art & Jardins | Hauts-de-France and the Amiens Métropole Tourist Office renew the Wellness Times Experiences every weekend in summer, until August 29th. New experiences to share with family, friends or solo on the plots of Île aux Fagots, between relaxation sessions & musical or botanical escapades.
Pricing
* 10€ / Adult
* 16€ / Duo Adult + Child
* 5€ / Supp. Child
Information and booking : https://my.weezevent.com/temps-bien-etre-2022
An artistic & landscaped trip in the heart of The Hortillonnages of Amiens > a beautiful aesthetic and poetic escape
Dear audience, dear visitors,
The International Garden Festival | Hortillonnages Amiens welcomes you from May 27th to October 15th, 2023. As an annual event not to be missed, it celebrates its 14th edition with 14 new creations, including 5 gardens, 6 artistic installations, and 3 projects by students from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Picardy Jules Verne.
The Festival is dedicated to supporting and promoting young landscape, architectural, and artistic creation in the Hortillonnages, a natural site spanning over 300 hectares between land and water in the heart of the city of Amiens.
Arranged on islands, the gardens and plastic installations of the International Garden Festival | Hortillonnages Amiens form a poetic journey that invites you to take a fresh, curious, or amused look at this unique environment, its history, and its future. It is also a gentle exploration, on foot or by boat, that allows for questioning the connections between nature, culture, agriculture, and heritage in light of the numerous impacts caused by climate change.
Spread across different plots located on the Clermont pond in Camon and Rivery, as well as on the Île aux Fagots in Amiens, the forty-six productions fully integrate contemporary issues of sustainable development and environmental challenges into their reflection and design: the preservation of the ecosystem, the vulnerability of riverbanks, water resources, food production, and the quality of nutrition.
The Festival aims to promote, perpetuate, and reveal this green heritage by offering encounters and workshops suitable for all audiences. It also includes a desire to contribute to the solidarity economy through the distribution of food produced, as well as a social integration approach involving workers from integration projects for garden maintenance and volunteers in civic service for reception.
Over the course of the previous 13 editions, nearly 194 gardens and installations have been created by 296 landscapers, visual artists, and architects; they have been enjoyed by over 520,000 visitors.
An aesthetic and poetic escapade, an artistic stroll that extends beyond Amiens to the banks of the river in Lamotte-Brebière, Corbie, Pont-Rémy, Eclusier-Vaux, Long, Abbeville, and also integrates into the urban landscape of Saint-Quentin: these landscape creations can be discovered in all seasons in the Somme Valley.
This project has been co-funded by the European Social Fund as part of the National Operational Program “Employment and Inclusion” 2014-2020.
The fourth edition of artistic and landscape creations from the International Garden Festival | Hortillonnages Amiens, dedicated to the productions of the years 2018-2019-2020, is available for purchase. You can download the order form here and discover some pages of this new publication.
The team of Art & Gardens | Hauts-de-France remains at your disposal for any further information.