Since 2013, the Institut Européen des Jardins & Paysages has been collecting data from private and public inventories. For each garden for which data is available, the sheet provides information on the history of the site, a description of the garden/park, botanical elements, as well as photographs offering a visual discovery of the site.
Since 2013, this work has been carried out in collaboration with the Pôle Document Numérique, a multi-disciplinary centre and engineering platform of the Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines (CNRS/Université de Caen Normandie).
A vast source of information, these databases are excellent work tools, not only for professionals from the park and garden sector, but also for historians and the many garden enthusiasts.
These inventories are regularly updated and their contents enhanced and augmented (new gardens, indexation keys, geolocation, etc.). Several inventories from different European countries are currently being compiled and will soon be added to those listed below.
This project has been approved by the Ministère de la Culture (French Ministry of Culture) ‘Année européenne du patrimoine culturel 2018′.
19,551 data recorded and inventoried 🇪🇺
- by country
France
12 990 inventory notices
et 1 289 archive notices
Inventory notices are sourced from the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France (Parks and Gardens of France Committee) and L'état des lieux des inventaires parcs et jardins. Rapport général. (General Report - review of park and garden inventories). Archive notices are established based on the Guide des sources relatives à l’histoire des parcs et jardins (Guide on park and garden resources).
Portugal
743 Portuguese gardens
The aim of this historic garden inventory, developed by the Centro de Ecologia Aplicada - CEABN (Applied Ecology Centre) at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (School of Agricultural Sciences) is to create a research and archive platform for Portuguese parks and gardens.
Belgium | Wallonia
1 035 inventory notices
Notes are sourced from the ‘Inventaire des parcs et jardins historiques de Wallonie’ (Walloon inventory of historic parks and gardens), on behalf of the Public Service of Wallonia’s heritage department and the Wallonia Heritage Institute.
Belgium | Flanders
820 historic parks and gardens
The inventory of historic parks and gardens is an initiative of Onroerend Erfgoed (Flanders Heritage Agency).
England
1 699 parks and gardens of special historic interest in England
The Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England was established by Historic England and currently lists around 1,700 sites.
Italy
2 264 parks and gardens
The survey by the APGI - Parks and Gardens of Italy Association is conducted in close collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogi e la Documentazione (Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation).
Updated: July 2025
- by geolocation 🇪🇺
Gardens whose coordinates are provided in the aforementioned databases : 6 637
- Contribute to the French inventory
Do you own a garden or park, whether or not it’s open to visitors? Would you like to keep a record of your threatened heritage in its environment?
Tell us about your garden, using the tools provided:
- a pre-inventory sheet summarising the information to collect out in the field.
- a volunteer’s manual offering a work method, whatever the volunteer’s existing knowledge.
Do you love gardens? Would you like to help enrich the inventory of French parks and gardens? The European Institute of Gardens and Landscapes is also looking for volunteers. The job involves gathering information by going out into the field to meet garden owners, to complete and update the data in the inventory, which is available online using the tools mentioned above.
For further information, you may write to contact@iejp.eu or call +33(0)6 15 52 49 87.
