News On October 4, 2012, the Audemars Piguet Foundation inaugurated «Le Jardin du Temps» (The Garden of Time), a project that it has financed in celebration of its twentieth anniversary. A botanical area on the site of the old Le Brassus station, Le Jardin du Temps proposes an educational journey to the heart of time. This ramble through the geology and botany of the Joux valley begins over 350 million years ago, well before the arrival of the dinosaurs.
Emblematic rocks from each period line the botanical garden presenting the indigenous tree species that have succeeded one another on this site from the end of the last ice age to this day. A staircase gives access to a replica of «Sapy», the mammoth of Le Brassus, which died 16,000 years ago. Discovered in May 1969 in the gravel of Praz-Rodet, very close to the village, the skeleton reproduced here is the star of the Lausanne Museum of Geology.
This garden also provides the Joux Valley with a free access area in which children and adults alike can join together to explore time. Picnic areas complete the park’s development.
October 30, 2012
