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The most magnificent gardens and parks from around the world
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1. Versailles (France)
One of the most famous gardens in the world was made specially
for Louis XIV by designer Andre Le Notre. Besides the many gardens and
parks, it can be seen and 55 pool and fountain, 400 sculptures and 42km
paths.
Originally established as the capital of the Kingdom France, Versailles
today represents a rich suburb of Paris and an important administrative
and legal centre. Situated on 17km to the west of central Paris, the
Palace "Versailles" continues to be unique with its fountains, which
use
hydraulic system ever since the ancient "Royal" times.
In 1979 the chateau and the gardens are included in the
list of historical heritage of UNESCO.
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Started in 1970 in the yard of Maggie Keswick’s family near
the Scottish borders, now the garden is maintained by Charles Jencks
and his wife Louisa Lane Fox. The garden represents the unique human
search of its mission to understand the universe.
The garden is a kind of connection with the substance of what is
outside the boundaries of our universe and space. Here the guides are
the fundamental concepts of modern physics such as quantum mechanics,
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Boboli Gardens (Florence, Italy)
Created behind the palace Pitti in Florence, Boboli Gardens were
revolutionary for the beginning of the XVI century in Italy. The reason
for this was their innovative "open" design.
Initially, have been built for Eleonora di Toledo, wife of Cosimo I
de'Medici. Niccolo Tribolo has done the first steps, but in the final
stage Buontalenti has divided the palace from the gardens and made it
more spacious.
The Gardens "Boboli" represents a Park, which serves as a "home" of the
disappeared collection of sculptures, dating back from XVI to the XVIII
century and some ancient Roman antiques.
The Gardens impress with their wide alleys, stone buildings, the
presence of magnificent statues and fountains, the sense of the details
and all this, combined with semi-private and public spaces, literally
"populated" with nymphs, caves and temples.
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Rikugien Gardens (Tokyo, Japan)
The name actually means "garden of the six poems”. The
interesting is that they represent miniatures of scenes of 88 famous
poems. The garden is located in Tokyo and is one of the most beautiful
Japanese gardens.
Rikugien Gardens was created by anagisawa Yoshiyasu. In the center of
the garden is located a big lake. There are small islands, woody areas,
artificial made hills and several traditional Japanese tea houses.
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Claude Monet Gardens (Giverny, France)
These are the gardens of the famous painter Claude Monet. The unique is
that they portray familiar themes of his best paintings as "Hell",
"Purgatory" and "Paradise".
Beautiful shrubs and nettle plants represent "Hell", which is divided
by "Heaven" where there are thousands of roses with removed prickles.
Near them is located a yew alley, which symbolizes
"Purgatory”.
Thirty thousand plants bloom in the park at spring. The garden is
located 80 km to the west of Paris, in the village Giverny, where Monet
and his family settled down in 1883.
The central alleys in front of the house are set with iron arches of
interlaced roses. The fence of the estate is literally captured of
shrub rose bushes. A curious detail is that the artist actually
didn’t enjoy the organization and the arrangement of the
garden. He was impressed only by the natural colors and beauty of the
plants. That’s way, he leaved them to grow themselves or as
expressing "loose". The house and the gardens are open for visitors.
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Butchart Gardens (Vancouver, Canada)
Butchart Gardens are located on Vancouver Island, Canada. They bear the
name “Benvenuto”, which in Italian means "welcome".
Once used as a natural piece of land, today they are part of the
national historical heritage of Canada.
The Gardens are owned by the heirs of the manufacturer Robert Pim
Butchard and as a part of the tradition continue to offer its
hospitality to everyone who wants to visit this remarkable place.
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7. Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
(South Africa)
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens are located in South Africa. The Gardens
were created in 1913, and as far as is known, the origin of their name
comes from several kins, named Kirsten, living in this area at the
time.
The English occupation (1811) caused some damage to the park. On a part
of the land were built houses for the English army. Today, these
buildings do not exist, and the have recovered their natural form.
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8. Yu Gardens (Shanghai, China)
The beautiful gardens Yu Gardens of Shanghai were build 400 years ago.
They were arranged by the dynasty Ming during the government of Emperor
Jia Jin and were recovered in 1960.
As a part of the Chinese historical heritage, these gardens are
considered a reflection of western Chinese way of landscaping. Today
the place is accessible to tourists.
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9. Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Garden (Springfiyld, USA)
The Garden at Lincoln Memorial was created by danish architect Jens
Jensens in 1936. There are sowed indigenous plants from the three
states where Lincoln have lived. These are Kentucky, Indiana and
Illinois.
The garden is owned by the city of Springfield, Illinois, and is
supported by The Memorial Foundation of Abraham Lincoln.
The official opening of the garden was in 1939, and in 1992 it enters
the list of national treasures of the United States.
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10. Exbury Gardens (bumilang
Hampshire, UK)
The beautiful Exbury Gardens are located in county Hampshire, UK. They
are property of the family Rothschild. Exbury Gardens represent 200
acres of woody area with a huge collection of rhododendrons, azaleas
and camellias. It's considered as the most beautiful park in the United
Kingdom.
The Exbury estate was purchased in the distant 1919, from ionel Nathan
de Rothschild. The infrastructure of the area included water tower,
three large lakes and 35 km. pipelines. Today the park is open mainly
at spring and autumn because of the beautiful colors of those seasons.
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Keukenhof (Lise, Netherlands)
Gardens Keukenhof, known as "the garden of Europe", are located near
the Dutch town Lisse. They are recognized as the largest flower garden
in the world. According to the official site of the park, each year
there are planted more than 7 million bulbs of tulips.
In 1949 a group of enthusiasts, producers of tulips, decided to make
from the garden space for exhibitions of tulips. Keukenhof is open for
visitors between the last week of March to mid-May each year.
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12. Mirabell Garden (Salzburg,
Austria)
The world renowned gardens of the palace "Mirabell" are part of the
fortress Hohensalzburg and the Cathedral of Salzburg. Today the garden
is considered as one of the most beautiful baroque gardens in Europe.
Near the fences of the garden can be seen statues from 1689
representing the Roman gods Diana, Flora, Minerva, Ceres, Pomona ,
Venus, Vesta, Dnuno and Bacchus, Jupiter, Mars, Hercules, Vulkan and
Apoloniy. The statues are made by B. van Opstal.
A huge fountain rises in the heart of the park, surrounded by a small
statues maden by Ottavio Mosto in 1690.
In the Garden of Mirabe can be seen an incredibly beautiful greenhouse,
the Museum of Baroque, several large and small fountains, statues of
various gods, baroque theater, bastion, and the valley of roses, where
is considered that ages ago were organised meetings between
homosexuals.
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13. Ryoan-ji (Kyoto, Japan)
The Garden Ryoan-ji in the "Temple of the calm dragon" is located in
the northwestern part of Kyoto, Japan. Belongs to the school
Mioshin-ji, which respects the sacraments of Zen-budizma.
It’s one of the historical monuments of ancient Kyoto and was
declared a World Heritage by UNESCO.
The name of the temple is associated with its stone garden which was
built in 1400. It’s covered with small gravel and fifteen
mossy river stones. The unique in these stones is their location. They
are placed so that regardless of the place and the direction of observe
in sight come only fourteen of them.
A few years ago, a group of scientists reported that they have been
solved the riddle of the stones. In certain positions in the visitor
establishes the sense of the presence of a powerful tree. The secret is
in the arrangement of the stones and the gravel, which in fact form a
picture of the branches of a tree in a way that is imperceptible for
the eye, but perceived from the the unconscious.
The japanesse tradition decrees that only whom was given providence is
able to see the fifteenth stone.
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