Parc Borély
Grand eighteenth-century merchant estate with formal gardens, a rose garden, and a museum-filled chateau.
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This guide to Parc Borely in Marseille starts at a bronze statue of Diana, goddess of the hunt, marking the entrance to a shaded passage once built to funnel wild birds into hunters' nets on the merchant Borely family's eighteenth-century estate. It traces the eleven years the Borelys spent building their chateau, and the city's decision to open the grounds as a public garden in 1864. The rose garden behind the chateau, first planted in 1923, now holds roughly two hundred fifty varieties across more than two thousand plants.
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