Water Theatre Grove

The curved fountain sculptures and planting belong to a new design opened in 2015. The landscape designer Louis Benech and the artist Jean-Michel Othoniel created it on the site of a grove first laid out in the 1670s. That earlier Water Theatre had a place for spectators and a stage where fountain engineers arranged changing water effects. The old installation was costly to maintain and disappeared at the end of the eighteenth century. The present garden is a contemporary addition within the historic estate. Reach it from the Neptune Fountain or North Parterre side, using the marked entrance. Follow the curves of the sculptures against the planting.