Parc Beaumont

The city of Pau bought this park from the family of Countess Anna de Noailles for the sum of 800 000 F at the time. In 1898, Henri Martinet, a landscape architect, redesigned it in an English style. From its alleys that converge on the bandstand to its bald cypress lake, the Beaumont Park is home to beautiful trees, many of which are over a hundred years old: evergreen sequoias from California, cedars from the Himalayas, araucarias from Argentina and Chile, trees from Judea, horse chestnuts from the Balkans, magnolias. Bucolic, the Pyrenean garden is reminiscent of the mountain, its rocks, its perennials, its streams. Nearby, on the southern slope, the Théâtre de Verdure hosts shows in summer.