Visit the arboretum of La Fosse

The arboretum is open by appointment only to groups of at least 10 paying visitors.

Entrance fee: 15 € per person.

Free of charge for children accompanied by adults, and for one leader of groups of 20 visitors.

A guided tour can also be booked for 80€ for the whole group, on top of the entrance fees.

Bookings can be made by email at arboretumdelafosse@orange.fr and confirmed upon reception of a deposit of 50% of the total amount due.

Because of the size, lay-out and the large number of plants, visitors usually spend between 1h30 and 2h walking around the Parc. It can, of course, be taken at greater speed or more leisurely, strolling the paths and resting in the clearings…

Most private Historical Monuments in France – and especially parks and gardens – are in deficit because of their high maintenance costs.

Their main expenditure is staff costs: salaries and employers’ dues (which are particularly high in France).

Historical Monuments are also important providers of work for local firms to whom they contract some of the tasks which their own staff cannot carry out.

Out of the 15€ which you will pay:

• 1.36€ will go to the State (VAT on monuments is almost twice that of movies and almost five times that of theatre, concerts and circus…).
• 13.64€ will be entirely devoted to the maintenance of the park.

This amount represents the cost of half an hour of a gardener’s work, or a few litres of petrol for a lawn-mower, or three quarters of the price of a blade for a garden clipper.

Through your visit, you support not only the maintenance of one of the oldest French arboretums but also local employment. Thank you.