Parc Tassart

About

Tassart Park is a park in Cahors, France. Accessible via Joachim-Murat Street or Emile-Zola Street, it is located behind the Cahors Henri-Martin Museum. Former garden of the bishopric concordataire in the 19th century, it became a public garden in 1906.

From the end of the 18th century, there were trees introduced into France: Sequoiadendron giganteum and Magnolia grandiflora d'Amérique, Magnolia sullangeana of Japan. The park also hosts collectible trees: Pinus pungens (pine of China with platinum bark), Taxodium distichum (cypress bald of Louisiana), etc. It is decorated with a pond and kindergarten.

On[Who?] also finds the work of sculptor Paul Niclausse entitled L'Orpheline (1913). He is named after Albert Tassart, former municipal councillor of Cahors.