Ploubezre · Côtes-d’Armor
Château de Kergrist
Four contrasting garden settings around a family château in Brittany.
From the source
Château de Kergrist is a château at Ploubezre, Côtes-d'Armor, in the Bretagne region of France. The recorded building campaigns date from the 15th and 17th centuries. 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
The Ministry of Culture’s 2026 Rendez-vous aux jardins listing describes four distinct garden settings at Kergrist, Ploubezre: French, English, exotic and Japanese. It credits the Huon de Penanster family with maintaining and embellishing the gardens from 1867 and places them around a house developed over several centuries. The programme describes about four hectares of grounds. Its June 2026 event dates establish a particular opening, rather than a permanent year-round visitor schedule.
Recommendation
Compare how the different garden settings frame the same house. Moving between formal, landscape and other themed areas offers a useful way to read the estate’s accumulated design choices. Confirm current access directly with Kergrist; the published garden-event dates should not be reused as today’s opening times.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00089469 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Eigen redactie · recovery-20261020:09342fa94a642743bb0fb7b0751fa507 — proprietary
Eigen redactie · jardin31-review-20261016-chateau-de-kergrist-0 — proprietary
Eigen redactie · recovery-20261020:753b5363d2739332e60f85d2996dc7d9 — proprietary
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ch%C3%A2teau%20Kergrist.jpg — CC BY 2.0
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