Domaine du Rayol
Facing Hyères’ islands, the Domaine du Rayol is a natural protected area, property of the Conservatoire du littoral. Its garden is an invitation to travel through Mediterranean-style, arid and subtropical landscapes. Several exhibition rooms, one café-restaurant, a specialised bookshop, a plant nursery, thematic tours and snorkeling activity (online reservation).
Facing Hyères’ islands, the Domaine du Rayol is a natural protected area, property of the Conservatoire du littoral. Its garden is an invitation to travel through Mediterranean-style, arid and subtropical landscapes. Several exhibition rooms, one café-restaurant, a specialised bookshop, a plant nursery, thematic tours and snorkeling activity (online reservation).
Programme
The Landscape of Gloria, Hopla Studio
Hopla Studio offers a joyful immersion where landscape becomes ritual and art celebrates the fertility of the living world. Vanina Langer and Magali Wehrung combine visual arts, textiles, ceramics, and culinary creations to reactivate a nourishing and protective bond with nature. Goddess-like sculptures, edible adornments, and large textile compositions weave a baroque universe where joy becomes a political act.
Fuegophillia, Amandine Guruceaga
Amandine Guruceaga explores fire as destructive and regenerative through burned textiles, oxidized metals, and seed-like sculptures in dialogue with the Jardin des Méditerranées.
Amandine Guruceaga’s practice combines vital energy with ecological sensitivity: recycled materials, surgical interventions on matter, painterly gestures, and ancestral techniques coexist to create a universe where attention to the Earth and to living beings lies at the heart of the work.
Offrande d’Azur, Ambre Cardinal
Offrande d’Azur is an aerial, luminous installation where time, gravity and living matter enter into a silent dialogue, a delicate dance between mimosa and brass. Through a slow, meditative process, the artist shapes nature as a subject in its own right, revealing the beauty of the fragile and the transient.
Inspired by the Japanese concept of mono no aware (物の哀れ) — a sensitivity to impermanence and the transformation of all things — the exhibition invites contemplation of life in its fleeting nature. Each sculpture drifts gently through the air, evoking the relativity of time.
Access
Domaine du Rayol, Le Jardin des Méditerranées
Avenue Jacques-Chirac
83820 Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer
33 (0)4 98 04 44 00
domainedurayol.org
Open every day from 9.30 am to 6.30 pm.
Until 7.30pm in July and August.
Self-guided or guided tours.
Permanent exhibition at the Villa Rayolet: weekends, public holidays and school holidays.
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PLACES TO DISCOVER
• Domaine de la Sanglière : to discover AOP Côtes de Provence wines. (Bormes-les-Mimosas)
• The Route des Crêtes from Bormes-les-Mimosas to the Col du Canadel, a confidential itinerary offering wonderful panoramic views between sea and mountain.
• The Sentier Littoral des 3 Caps (Lardier, Taillat, Camarat), starting from L’Escalet, on the Ramatuelle village.
PLACES TO EAT
• Le Café des Jardiniers : a terrace in the heart of the Jardin des Méditerranées. Seasonal cuisine, fresh and local products. (Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer)
• Le Maurin des Maures : an iconic restaurant in the village where the bouillabaisse is legendary. Panoramic view. (Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer)
• Le Café l’Envol (Hôtel La Villa Douce) : for a fancy dinner or a cocktail immersed in the Mediterranean. A small hidden paradise with a breathtaking 180° view. (Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer)
PLACES TO STAY
• Hôtel Le Bailli de Suffren 4-star : 55 bedrooms open to the sea, out of sight. A small paradise in a preserved inlet facing the Îles d’Or, your feet in the water. (Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer)
• Hôtel Les Terrasses du Bailli 3 -star : an elegant building just a step from the Jardin through the Voie Verte. (Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer)
