Lenotre is a royal gardener, designed for Louis XIV Versailles, and for the princes of Conde, close relatives of the monarch, this beautiful, romantic park in Chantilly. Once there were hunting grounds and ancestral residence serving the owners and their high-society guests. Here they had fun, collected art, zudili. One of Konde, for example, seriously believed that in the next life he would be born a horse, and in connection with this he ordered to build for himself the future huge stables, in its magnificence not inferior to the palace. In short, the usual high society story.

Now the castle, the park and the stables are combined into the Le Domaine de Chantilly complex, which can be visited. The park is made in a big way. Slowly walk here for more than one hour. It is divided into several meaningful parts. The central one is a symmetric orchestra framed by rows of sheared plane trees. It leads to the canal piercing the park horizontally. On the one hand, the channel ends with a dam and a pool. On the other goes to a small waterfall. There are all sorts of beauty along the banks: elements of the Chinese garden, a small "rural" part depicting a farm immersed in a bush of irises. There is also a small labyrinth of shrubs. In the part where the waterfall is located, there are dark, Bunin alleys and a pond with white swans — to top off the fairy tale, because there is a real castle nearby, albeit eclectic: a cross between the XVII century and XIX. Not far from the pond is the most romantic place in the park — a tall forged arbor with a female figure representing the nymph. Especially beautiful composition looks in the rays of sunset. It is worth adding that there are deer in the park. Yes, live, cross the road. It is not surprising that the castle has a statue of a bronze deer. Since the hunting times of Montmorency and Conde, it seems, little has changed.

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