Vic-de-Chassenay · Côte-d’Or
Château de Bourbilly
A landscape park in the Serein valley, with water, woodland and the traces of a productive garden.
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From the source
Château de Bourbilly is a château at Vic-de-Chassenay, Côte-d'Or, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of France. The recorded building campaign dates from the 19th century. It is protected as a monument historique at the second level (inscrit). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
At Bourbilly near Vic-de-Chassenay, the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France records a six-hectare park in the valley of the Serein. Its account attributes an enlargement and redesign to Adolphe Alphand in 1869. Paths connect river, woodland, flower borders and water features. The directory also describes the retained structure of a terraced kitchen garden, cultivated until 1957 and subsequently laid to grass, with fruit trees and architectural ornaments. This is a landscape shaped by successive interventions, rather than a single intact period garden.
Recommendation
Follow the changes between open valley, shade and water, then look for the surviving structure of the former kitchen garden. The productive and ornamental parts offer different readings of the same estate. Bourbilly is private; check the owners’ current visiting calendar rather than assuming that a seasonal opening applies throughout the year.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00112778 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Eigen redactie · jardin31-review-20261016-chateau-de-bourbilly-0 — proprietary
Eigen redactie · jardin31-review-20261016-chateau-de-bourbilly-1 — proprietary
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ch%C3%A2teau%20de%20Bourbilly%20%28nord%29.jpg — CC BY-SA 3.0
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