The Citrus Garden Palace is located Carnolès Menton, close to the seafront.
If the palace (then single house) was built in the seventeenth century by Prince Honoré II Grimaldi, the garden was created in 1725 on the will of his great-grand-son Antoine I who wanted to regain some of the pomp of Versailles where he had stayed.
The Monegasque architect Antoine Latour and designed a renovation and expansion of the residence that became from actually at a palace. As for the park, where citrus fruits were already present since the seventeenth century, he was also redesigned. It then identifies a vegetable garden, a garden of ornamental says "flower garden" and a large garden-park with pools and water games. It is in the surrounding wall that protected by a trellis, rely lemon and orange trees.
Nowadays, wide 2-hectare garden where statues are installed includes a collection of citrus planted in 1970, through a partnership with the Corsican unit of the National Institute for Agricultural Research. Y are visible 137 varieties of citrus, including 24 sweet orange, sour orange and lemon trees.
The site is labeled Remarkable Garden and can be a very pleasant walk to score but also of discovery in terms of agronomy.
Open all year except Tuesdays and holidays. Free visit free. Tour the first Wednesday of the month (price: 6 EUR). Information +33 4 89 81 52 70.
