Gardens inside the Hotel Haguenot. This hotel is a folie, ie purchased a house in the eighteenth century by a wealthy family. At the time, the foils were in the field. The urban development has made have finished in the heart of the city. In the eighteenth century, a period of great prosperity, Montpellier housed the main administrative bodies (States of Languedoc, Court of Auditors, the stock market ...). This circumstance allowed the nobility and the bourgeoisie built large town houses in Montpellier, and small manor houses in the neighborhood, "Follies", located in gardens with trees, which competed in refinement and architectural style. Plant houses were generally rectangular, with simple lines adorned with sculptures. The garden is extended from the house in overlapping terraces, adorned with statues and ponds. The most original was the château of Flaugergues, but also worth visiting the chateaux of Mogère and Mosson. His monumental fountains, aqueducts and gardens filled with cool summer mornings.