More than 2 700 parks and gardens (of whom over 500 exceptionnally) opened simultaneously their doors throughout this first weekend of June and welcomed more than 2 million visitors throughout Europe in nearly 4000 quality events.
Launched in Paris on 1 June by Françoise Nyssen (French Minister for Culture) and Monika Grutters (German Minister of State, German Federal Government Delegate for Culture and the Media), the theme "Europe of Gardens" and the visual, common to all countries, were a great success and most countries organised educational activities for schoolchildren from Friday 1 June.
On the model of the European Heritage Days, the objective is to secure this event with the countries already participating and to extend these "Rendez-vous in gardens" to other European countries. The theme foreseen for 2019 is "Animals in the garden".
A study day for all the national and regional organisers of this event (nearly 200 participants in 2018) was organised on Wednesday 6 February at the Institut national du patrimoine in Paris. The outcomes of that meeting are available here (only in French).
16 countries have participated:
Belgium, 
Croatia, 
Estonia, 
France, 
Germany, 
Hungary, 
Ireland, 
Italy, 
Lithuania, 
Monaco, 
Netherlands, 
Poland, 
Slovak Republic, 
Slovenia, 
Spain and 
Switzerland.
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