La Ferme du Mont des Recollets, CASSEL

With his legendary kindly nature, Manu de Quillacq will share with you his two real passions: Flanders and his garden. Around his authentic Flemish farmstead with its stepped gables you’ll find the landscapes of the early Flemish painters, where Brueghel himself could have lived. From the slopes of the Mont des Récollets in Cassel you have an unrestricted view over the Flanders countryside. You’ll stroll through fourteen gardens that take their inspiration from Flanders, from the Renaissance to the traditional and the contemporary: berlingots, traceries of box hedging, grey, blue or purple gardens, yews shaped into waves or a succession of plateaux, fruit orchards and kitchen gardens…