Musée Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille’s country home stands in the middle of this little garden of culinary and medicinal plants. The house has a romantic air, with its external timber frame in the Norman style. The garden is laid out in a series of squares containing vegetables and lettuce, with flowering plants to provide touches of colour and scent. Fruit trees and roses are trained around the borders, and there is a fine collection of aromatic plants. From spring to autumn this is a little gem of a garden less than 10km from the centre of Rouen.