Château et Parc Vauvert

The Vauvert Park is fed by the Beuvron, more specifically by an underground stone aqueduct dating from 1700

A path invites you to take a walk, surrounded by different types of gardens (English garden spirit and French garden spirit)

History:
- Vauvert comes from Val vert: green meadow, scrubland and is about 7.65 ha today.
- In the 16th century, there is along the street Druyes, a farmhouse: with 1 barn and 1 house, called La Coulemelle. The park was then composed of land belonging to several owners.
- November 10, 1697: the farmhouse is sold by Sr. Grasset to Rioult de Douilly, master of requests and adviser to the Parliament of Paris.
- From 1700 to 1702 : he buys several plots of land and designs a park for pleasure. He plants lime trees and yews (in the style of the French garden).
Construction at this time of the castle (classicism) with the stables and sheds (current House of Training).

- 1754: Philiberte Lamy wife of the Marquis of Argence, Baron of St-Pierre-du-Mont, becomes the heiress.
The park takes the name of Argence Park, as shown by the arms on the gate

- During the Revolution: potatoes were planted in the courtyard

- 1794-1795: prisoners of war and soldiers were held there
- 1800: Guingat, a wood merchant in Clamecy, sells the trees planted in 1700 and plants fruit trees, but the flowerbeds and flowers disappear
- 1828: Millelot adds the monumental stone staircase and replants many trees.
- 1875 : Théodore Tenaille-Saligny, Paris city councillor, former prefect : calls on a landscape architect to create a sinuous landscape, inviting to stroll, using the natural rock face of the site.
- 1943: purchase by the City of Clamecy (3,650,000 francs): to house the museum's collections and to build an open-air type high school. The project is nevertheless abandoned. Only the sports and leisure programme was carried out (football pitch, tennis court, bowling green, children's games.
until the Revolution. They were officially adopted again by the city council on August 6, 1809.

It is nevertheless currently a real green lung for the Clamecycois - and anyone else who can walk freely. The castle cannot be visited, as it is currently home to the Espace Social des Vaux d'Yonne (the social centre of Clamecy).

Note the presence of different species of wood including these: Sequoia, Lacinia maple, Arizona Cypress, Ginko, Tulip tree of Virginia..

Little more: In the direction of the portal, rue des Granges, the coat of arms of the city of Clamecy in the ironwork, at the top of the portal, are to be observed. They are blazoned: azure sown with billets of gold to the lion of the same, armed and lamped of gules, broaching on the whole. They appear for the first time on the seal of William IV, Count of Nevers and Auxerre, and Lord of Clamecy, which explains the identical coat of arms for these three towns. The seals of the provostry of Clamecy take up these coats of arms in the 13th century, the town using them