Jardin des sens Besançon

Besançon, France, France

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Jardin des Sens (Garden of Senses), also called Promenade de l'Helvétie, is a botanical garden and five-senses park located along the Doubs River in Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, on Avenue d'Helvétie near the historic center.

Created and structured as a five-senses garden in the late 1980s, it features numerous plants, shrubs, and flowers designed to engage all five senses: taste (fruits), sight (multicolored flower beds), smell (aromatic plants and flowers), touch (plants that are rough, rugged, or velvety), and hearing (the rustling Doubs River, wind in trees, and bird song).

The garden is fully accessible to people with disabilities, with wide pathways, protective guiding, handrails, plant labeling in French and Latin, and braille plaques along the route for visually impaired visitors. Open year-round and free to enter, it stretches along the Doubs River and connects to Parc Micaud, with a fountain-basin honoring Count Hilaire de Chardonnet between the two, and is adorned with a statue of Marquis Claude de Jouffroy d'Abbans by sculptor Jean Jegou.