Landscape parks of the world. The most beautiful gardens in the world. Tofukuji monastery gardens in Kyoto

Royal Tulip Park Keukenhof, Holland


Keukenhof, or "Garden of Europe", is a fabulous kingdom of parks and flowers, spread over an area of ​​32 hectares in the vicinity of the town of Lisse, between Amsterdam and The Hague. Despite the fact that Keukenhof is open to the public for only two months a year, from about March 20 to May 20, more than a million people visit it every year.

Nong Nooch Tropical Garden, Thailand


Nong Nooch is 240 hectares of botanical gardens and local attractions located on the 163rd kilometer of Sukhumvit Road in Chonburi province. The park has its own Stonehenge and has gardens of orchids, bonsai trees and ferns.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London


Kew Gardens originated in 1670 in Kew Park, created by Lord Henry Capel on the site of a pharmaceutical garden. More than 2 million tourists visit them every year, but the gardens are not just for them. Kew Gardens is a leading center for botanical research and the training of professional gardeners. Scientific research is carried out here, and the plants are also used as a source for other beautiful parks in England.

The most famous landmarks in the Royal Botanic Gardens are Kew Palace, Minka, Big pagoda, Davis Alpine House, Japanese Gate, Risotron Multimedia Gallery, Queen Charlotte's Cottage, Marianne North Gallery, Shirley Sherwood Gallery, Treetop Alley Bridge and Water Lily House.

Tropical Palm Park, Florida, USA

The park is home to a unique collection of rare tropical plants, including palms, flowering trees and vineyards.

Yu Yuan Garden, Shanghai


The first owner of the Yu-Yuan garden in Shanghai, Pan Yunduan, who was the provincial treasurer in the Ming era, decided to build a garden resembling the imperial garden in Beijing to please his parents in old age. Since the 16th century, the park has undergone several renovations.

The entire park was built according to all the feng shui rules. The garden is divided into 6 parts, which are connected by intricate passages, visually isolated from each other. The name Yu Yuan means "Garden of Joy" or "Garden of Leisurely Recreation."

Garden of Cosmic Reflections, Scotland


it amazing place appeared in Scotland in the town of Dumfries in 1989. Instead of exotic flowers and an abundance of shrubs, there are aluminum flower beds, instead of spouting fountains, there are black holes, and the landscape is mesmerizing with unusual forms.

Versailles gardens, France

The famous Versailles Gardens were laid out under Louis XIII and were brought to perfection by the famous court landscape architect André Le Nôtre at Louis XIV... In addition to carefully trimmed lawns and lawns, sculptures and flower parterres, luxurious fountains are located throughout the gardens.


Versailles Park is a "garden of reason" with mathematically verified proportions and well-planned alleys. The Sun King did not want to see withered flowers, so two million potted fresh flowers were always ready to replace the wilted ones and the garden shone magnificently all year round.

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World parks - recreational areas of cities, designed to filter the polluted atmosphere of megacities, are becoming more original every year. Show yourself and surprise people - probably, world famous designers are guided by this principle when designing gardens and national parks. Unusual bionic forms, reliefs of unearthly beauty, - an amazing color distinguishes modern park landscape design.

Tropical Garden in Singapore is the most beautiful park in the world

In 2012, British architectural firm Wilkinson Eyre, in collaboration with landscape designers from Grant Associates, completed work on Singapore's 54-hectare Bay South national garden. The park's master plan is a stylized orchid that cost £ 500 million to implement. Two shell-shaped greenhouses, surrounded by 1850-meter high tree-like columns, were erected on reclaimed land in the center of Singapore, on the shore of the bay.

Thousands of plant species grow in an openwork frame of columnar trunks connected to each other suspension bridge spiral-shaped, raised 20 m from the surface of the earth. Rainwater, collected in improvised conical crowns, serves to irrigate vertical plantings.

The best parks in the world are the winners of the "Most Beautiful Landscape Design" competition

The botanical garden, laid out in a former sand quarry in, near Melbourne, was recognized as the best among national parks the world in 2013. The project was developed by landscape design studio Taylor Cullity Lethlean and dendrologist Paul Thompson. 170 thousand plants from about 2,000 species of Australian flora are represented in the park, which reflects the identity of nature and landscape of Australia.

According to the 2014 World Architecture Festival, Australia's 100 Forests National Arboretum, designed by the landscape bureau Taylor Cullity Lethlean and architect Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, was chosen as the best park in the world. Concept unusual garden- regeneration of plantations on the outskirts of Canberra, damaged by seasonal fires. The new park area of ​​30 hectares will include 50 thousand rare species of trees and flowers from all over the world, as well as representatives of flora that are on the verge of extinction.

Conceptual design projects of parks of the world

British designer Thomas Heatherwick designed the island park, which is planned to be laid in 1916 in New York on the Hudson River in the area of ​​a dilapidated pier. "Treasure Island" - this is the conceptual name of the landscape park, is a wavy landscape platform based on a group of mushroom-shaped columns 56 meters high. In addition to multilevel viewing platforms, an amphitheater for 700 spectators will be located on the territory of the park. The park's construction is estimated at $ 130 million - $ 113 million of which has already been received as a charitable donation from media mogul Barry Diller - the largest donation to the New York City beautification fund since its inception.

Inspired by the landscape of the Arabian Desert, Heatherwick designed the 125,000 m2 Al Fayah Park for the city of Abu Dhabi in the UAE. The fragmented canopy, reminiscent of cracked desert terrain, will be supported by a colonnade and hide a vast recreational area under its shadow. Protected in this way from the scorching sun, exotic plants will be able to grow unhindered in the territory of the national park - an unusual fissured roof will form a shady zone and trap evaporating moisture.

Another ambitious project by Thomas Heatherwick is a 367 meter park footbridge concept designed to connect two banks of the Thames in London: Covent Garden and South Bank Street. The structure of the bridge-park includes two interconnected platforms that support pillars expanding to the top, resembling the opened buds of a rare flower. The cost of building the bridge is estimated at 175 million pounds and is controversial from the public and the municipality of London - it is the most expensive park bridge in the world.

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"Above all beauties - the beauty of nature" - said Plato once, admiring the sun setting over Athens. Indeed, is there something more perfect than nature itself? Even decades later, the greatest parks of the world continue to inspire and delight human eyes. In this section you will learn about the most beautiful corners our planet - gardens, parks, estates and reserves.

Tsinandali - the "black rose" of Georgia

Tsinandali Park of Georgia - the creation of hundreds of hands - turned out to be really luxurious to the delight of the owner. Having multiplied the fame of Tsinandali winemakers a hundredfold, it is now the property of the whole of Georgia and a kind of surprise for guests in its hinterland.

Alexandria

it landscape park in the English style with elements of romanticism, sentimentalism and park architecture in the style of late classicism. Both the Emperor Alexander I and the poet Alexander Pushkin visited the park. The prototype of Tatyana Larina in Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" was the daughter of the owners of the Branitsky estate - Elizabeth. The park is included in cultural program"Euro 2012". Located in g. White church, distance from Kiev - 75 km.


Sofiyivka

The park has no equal in the landscape stylization of ancient Hellas, is considered one of the most beautiful parks not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe, has more than 3323 taxa, including such rare species as swamp cypress, Weimutov pine, tulip tree, sycamore, ginkgo biloba, located in the Cherkasy region in Uman, distance from Kiev - 220 km.


Manor in Kachanovka

This is the only example of palace manor architecture that has been completely preserved to this day. In the 19th century, Kachanovka became a place of pilgrimage for people of art: Gogol and Shevchenko, Kostomarov and Repin. It was here that Mikhail Glinka created his famous overture to the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila, after which the pavilion where he worked was called “Glinka's Altanka”. Location: Chernihiv region, pos. Kachanivka, distance from Priluki - 20 km, from Kiev - 150 km.


La Granja Estate - amazing landscape

Not big Island Majorca, 70x100 kilometers in size, is located in the Mediterranean. It is unusually beautiful and diverse. With a favorable, mild climate and fabulous landscapes. This is the most large island The Balearic archipelago, the territory of which is literally dotted with natural national parks... Of all regions of Spain, Mallorca has the highest standard of living.
Mallorca parks, La Granja Estate - amazing park which will amaze you with its beauty.

Manor in Lunugang

Lunuganga manor is secluded in the delta of one of the tropical rivers flowing into the ocean on west coast Sri Lanka. She is very close to popular resort Bentota, a few kilometers from the Colombo-Galle highway. But its creator and owner dreamed of peace in order to indulge in their fantasies and realize bold ideas, so he hid it under a canopy of trees in a picturesque lagoon.

Water in a Japanese garden. Part 1. Symbolism and realism

Japanese gardens are deeply symbolic. In their pursuit of perfection, oriental culture, history and religion of the Japanese people and the beauty of nature have merged together.

Water in a Japanese garden. Part 2. Symbolism and realism

A real Japanese garden is a union of peace and vital energy, passing and eternal, Yin and Yang. The image of water is always present in the Japanese garden. It symbolizes life and purification, and its murmur reminds of the transience of time.

French Baroque. Water extravaganzas in the regular gardens. Part 1

Water in the regular gardens of France, perhaps for the first time in the history of architecture, formed the basis of spatial composition. These gardens differ significantly from the regular gardens of Renaissance Italy, because it was in the French Baroque that perfection was achieved in working in a regular space.

French Baroque. Water extravaganzas in the regular gardens. Part 2

The deficit of verticals in the composition of the water mirrors of the gardens of the Baroque era was compensated for by all possible architectural techniques - up to the construction of monumental decorations, like the Medici fountain in Luxembourg Gardens.

Romantic landscape. Part 1

By the end of the 18th century, romanticism came into vogue, including landscape gardening. Literature and painting celebrate the beauty of nature: meadows, fields, forests and rivers.

Romantic landscape. A variety of aquatic forms in Ukrainian parks of the 18th-19th centuries. Part 1

The period of romanticism served as the impetus for the creation of many of the most beautiful landscape parks in Ukraine. These parks are very different from each other in size, compositional solutions and many other parameters, but invariably, water surfaces in all their diversity were used to decorate each of them.

Romantic landscape. A variety of aquatic forms in Ukrainian parks of the 18th-19th centuries. Part 2

Romantic gardens, created in Ukraine at the end of the 18th century, and to this day remain an unsurpassed role model. You could walk in them for hours, enjoying the beautiful scenery created by nature in collaboration with man. The aesthetics of a romantic garden are created by water. The quiet surface of the ponds, canals hidden in the shade of trees, and murmuring streams create a special atmosphere of peace and tranquility.

Mariinsky park

Over the years of its existence, a variety of ornamental trees and shrubs have been planted in the Mariinsky Park. Alleys of the park - winding and deliberately naturally inscribed in the landscape - are decorated with maples, lindens and chestnuts.

Giant botanical garden

One of the garden's many attractions is the lilac, which is over 100 years old. The trunk of this lilac in girth is approximately 1.5 meters. It is hard to believe how such a "florid" plant can have such a mighty trunk.


Rosarium uetersen. Spectacular rose park in Germany

The Rosarium Uetersen park is located in the very north of the country, the city of Uetersen, 20 kilometers from Hamburg. Almost next to the park are located a family plant nursery.

Vorontsovsky park

Vorontsovsky park- a favorite place for filmmakers. In the last few years alone, more than 20 films have been filmed, not to mention the Soviet period and "The Dog in the Hay" Located on the South Coast in Alupka, the distance from Yalta is 25 km; from Kiev - 1082 km.


Livadia park

This is a beautiful landscape park with regular elements, a type of Italian terraced gardens, which adjoins the natural Crimean forest on the slopes. It was the favorite garden of Empress Maria Romanova. Here, specially for her, conifers were planted throughout the park to treat her sick lungs. Distance from Yalta - 3 km, from Kiev - 1060 km. Located in Livadia.


Unique Peterhof. Man-made landscape in difficult climatic conditions

Cold sea air, high humidity, soil salinity are northern realities in which the creation of a garden and park complex is a feat. And his name is Peterhof. In world practice, before Peterhof, there was no experience in creating regular parks in such complex natural conditions... This garden and park complex is a vivid example of Russian Baroque, and bears all the best features of Western Baroque with the characteristic features of gardens inherent only in Russia.


Sanssouci. The majestic park of northwestern Europe

Northwest Europe. Germany. Potsdam. Sanssouci. A park “without worries”, in which the voice of a flute is always heard and European, German Rococo is read in every architectural element.


The Hage saga and more. Features of the landscape and parks in Sweden

From the south, Sweden is covered with green fields, from the west - green hills, and in the north it is already the harsh tundra of Lapland. Daylight hours in Sweden in winter lasts no more than eight hours, and the sky is gray and cloudy all this time. But, despite the outward severity, Sweden makes an indelible impression. The country has a unique landscape, wonderful national natural parks and one of the most wonderful and famous man-made gardens in the world - the first example of English gardening art in Sweden - the Royal Haga Park.


A landscape at the edge of the world. Features of gardens and parks in Norway

Almost at the end of the world, at the Arctic Circle, where trolls and reindeer live, in the northern and western parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula and on the Spitsbergen archipelago, the Kingdom of Norway (Kongeriket Norge) is located. A harsh and amazingly beautiful land. The beauty of which is harsh, but refined and refined.
Nature is perfect and gardens and parks are natural. Because during the development of this territory, local residents tried not to violate its natural harmony as much as possible.


Dutch gardens. Home of black tulips

In Holland, despite its "cold location" (after all, northwestern Europe!), Relatively modest size and anthropogenic landscape, the largest number of tulips is grown. These flowers occupy almost half of the entire blooming surface of the country! True, despite the fact that Holland is associated with the homeland of tulips, these flowers were brought to the country many centuries ago ...


Couture inspiration. Majorelle garden

Jacques Majorelle was fond of collecting plants. From his travels, he brought back North American and Mexican cacti, rare flowers from South Africa, and Asian lotuses.

New Zealand. Scraps from Wellington

Different climate, different conditions, unusual, interesting solutions. Walking the streets of Wellington, every now and then you come across something intriguing and eye-catching. The temperature drop from + 25-30 in summer and +15 in winter, with high air humidity, allows local gardeners to realize a variety of "miracles".


Amazing topiary. Memories of Hong Kong

The plants are selected in such a way that a three-dimensional pattern is created that plays not only with shapes, but with color and texture. And this applies not only to woody plants. The transformation also affected the familiar annual flower beds.


Nature reserves of Kanev

Worth seeing because:
- Taras Shevchenko's grave and museum are located on Tarasova Hill in Kanev
- Kanevskie mountains - a landmark of national importance
- ecosystems of the floodplain islands of the Kanevsky Reserve are reference

Zolochiv Castle

Worth seeing because:
- one of the three Chinese palaces in Europe is located on the territory
- on the territory of the garden there are two mysterious stones, one of which supposedly fulfills wishes, and the other
is the key to the treasures of the Templars

Kochubei oaks

Worth seeing because:
- 4 giant oak trees grow here, each is about 800 years old
- in Dikanka there is an amazing lilac grove with an area of ​​2 hectares
- there are: a triumphal arch built in honor of the arrival of Alexander I;
- Nicholas Church, built in 1794; Trinity Church, built in the Baroque style in 1780 and Dikan Museum of Local Lore
- not far from Dikanka in the village of Oposhnya there is a museum of ceramics and pottery

Tarkhankut

Worth seeing because:
- this place has a unique ecosystem and the cleanest water area of ​​the Black Sea
- there are well-known protected natural boundaries Atlesh and Dzhangul
- there is a first-class 42-meter lighthouse built in 1816
- shot footage of such famous films as "Amphibian Man" and "Pirates of the 20th Century"
- this is a great place for diving

Foros park

Worth seeing because:
- such a unique park of 70 hectares was created in a record time for the 19th century - in 5 years
- here is the only grove of 20-meter Lebanese cedars in the whole territory of Ukraine
- Mikhail Gorbachev was nearby in August 1991 during the coup

Chersonesus Tauride

Worth seeing because:
- it is considered the cradle of Christianity in Russia - in 988, the baptism of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavovich took place here
- this is the only one not built up ancient city in Crimea, available for inspection
is a vivid example of antique urban architecture with an acropolis and an amphitheater

Canada.Butchart Garden

North America. A country of wild, pristine nature, inaccessible Cordilleras and a harsh climate. It was there, at the beginning of the 20th century, the Butchart family of settlers decided to establish a landscape park in the best traditions of the Old World, breaking it into the most picturesque place with the poetic name Beautiful British Columbia.

South Korea. Glass garden

The garden is in the very southern point South Korea- on the island of Jeju. The climate here is subtropical, and therefore the infrastructure of the island is focused on international tourism... Over the past 30 years, Korea has undergone dramatic changes in the direction of openness to the world, and Jeju is the most telling example of this.

Spain. Manor Valdemossa

Perhaps there is no person who has visited Mallorca and has not visited the estate of Valldemossa. After all, this is the most famous place in Mallorca, famous for its famous residents and guests - Georges Sand, Frederic Chopin, Ruben Dario.

Austria. Rosary in Baden-Baden

Baden is a small resort town in the east of Austria, famous for its numerous thermal springs... It is about an hour's drive from Vienna and has a rich history.

Feofania Park

Worth seeing because:
- this is one of the newest landscape parks in Kiev, comparable in scale to Pirogovo, its area is 153 hectares
- in 1950, the first computer in Europe was built here in the building of the St. Panteleimon monastery (Small
electronic counting machine)

Dulber Palace

Worth seeing because:
- included in the route of the "Tsar's path"
- the palace park is a monument of landscape architecture
- the style of the palace complex - a mix of the architecture of the Saracen buildings of Syria, Egypt and European comfort

Natalyevka


is a unique estate of the late 19th century, built in a landscape style with a once luxurious two-level park
- the unique church of 1913, built by academician Alexei Shchusev, the author of the projects of the Mausoleum and the Kazansky railway station in Moscow, has been preserved here. An exact copy of the temple was recreated by the descendants of Russian emigrants on the Cote d'Azur in Nice

Olesky castle

Worth seeing because:
is an amazing and wonderful mix of landscape and regular styles
- in the 17th century European gardeners were engaged in landscaping the park around the castle
- here on April 17, 1624, the future Polish king Jan III Sobieski was born

Cinderella cave

Worth seeing because:
is a unique gypsum cave between two states - Ukraine and Moldova, whose three-story
underground galleries extend up to 90 kilometers
- ranks third in the world in terms of its length among gypsum caves

Stone graves

Worth seeing because:
- many historians and archaeologists claim that the "Stone Graves" are older than Stonehenge, Egyptian pyramids and all the ziggurats of the East;
is 400 hectares of picturesque virgin steppe.

USA. Skyland

The botanical garden greeted us with a warm autumn rain. There were few visitors, so our journey into the world of greenery, architecture and history began slowly and without fuss along the wet paths.

Scotland. Drummond

In the hinterland of Scotland, in the mountains covered with centuries-old trees, the old Drummond estate is lost. The purpose of my journey is the manor garden. The road pleases the eye and excites with a presentiment of the unknown and beautiful ...

Pirogovo

Worth seeing because:
is the most big museum architecture and life under open air in Eastern Europe
- here it is easiest to plunge into the national atmosphere and be inspired to create an exterior in the national Ukrainian style
- on the territory of the museum there is a unique hut built from a wooden frame back in 1587

Korsun-Shevchenkovsky

Worth seeing because:
- this is the only park in Ukraine, where the basis of the composition was created by nature, and the dominant feature is water and stone
- in the 50s. XIX century it was one of the richest and most beautiful palace and park complexes in Europe
- the palace has survived to this day with amazing architecture, but its interior is discordant with the exterior: the previous decoration has not survived, but inside there is a military museum

Sharovka

Worth seeing because:
- the first coffee tree in Ukraine was grown here
- this is a vivid example of Gothic architecture and the landscape created to match it on natural terraces
- this is one of the few estates of the middle of the 19th century that survived and were not plundered after the 1917 revolution

Sokirentsi

Worth seeing because:
- the most famous Ukrainian kobzar Ostap Veresai (1803-1890) lived here
- poet and artist T.G. Shevchenko, artist L.M. Zhemchuzhnikov and composer M.V. Lysenko visited Sokirentsi
- growing in the park: a unique plane tree, which is more than 200 years old, and Shevchenko sycamore

Buk canyon

Worth seeing because:
- it is one of the hundred most beautiful places in Ukraine and ranks second in the rating "Seven Wonders of Cherkasy region"
is a unique small fjord on the territory of our country
- there are picturesque ruins of a water mill of the late 19th century and one of the first Ukrainian hydroelectric power plants

Lake Synevyr

Worth seeing because:
is the biggest Mountain Lake Carpathians
- there is a unique Museum of Forest and Rafting, which has no analogues in Europe
- 52 plants listed in the Red Book grow here, and there are even representatives typical for the flora of the tundra and taiga

Podgoretsky castle

Worth seeing because:
- part of the "Golden Horseshoe" Lviv region
- episodes of the Soviet film "D" Artagnan and the Three Musketeers were filmed here
- a unique linden tree grows on the territory of the park, which is about 700 years old
- the castle inspired Peter I to build Peter and Paul Fortress

Khortytsya

Worth seeing because:
- this is the largest island on the Dnieper, storing relics, which are more than six thousand years old (from the Mesolithic era to the present day)
- the world's smallest fern grows here (about 1 cm) - floating salvinia
- samples of all landscape zones of Ukraine are presented here - from steppes to mountains
- the appearance of the first Cossack Sich is associated with Khortytsya

Balaclava

Worth seeing because:
- travels of cunning Odyssey are connected with Balaklava Bay
- there are unique natural monuments - Cape Aya Fiolent, the remains of the majestic genoese fortress Chembalo
- in Soviet times it was closed city: here are located the adits of the underground submarine repair plant that have no analogues in the world

Massandra park

Worth seeing because:
is a prime example of a classic regular French park
- the palace and the park were the most beloved residence of Alexander III

Chantilly Park - the landscape heart of France's regular gardens

The ideas of French absolutism were reflected in the formation of the classic landscape gardening style of the 17th century - a French regular garden with its characteristic elements: parterres, bosquets, borders, bersot, trellises, pavilions, hermitages, fountains, sculptures, topiary, tub trees.

Phoenix Park - the pearl of the Côte d'Azur

Cote d'Azur France (Cote d "Azur) delights with its uniqueness and harmony, attracting millions of tourists from all over the world. And connoisseurs of man-made landscapes, it also attracts with its beautiful gardens and parks.

Walk through the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kandy

Many have heard that the island of Sri Lanka, located to the south of India, has been called the "Paradise Island" from time immemorial. The reason for this is its subsoil rich in gems, fragrant spices and an amazing variety of landscapes. However, only connoisseurs and specialists know that on a relatively small island there are several botanical gardens at once, including the "green treasury of Asia" - the Royal Botanical Garden near Kandy, in the Peradeniya university town.

"Trostyanets"

Worth seeing because:
- one of the ten largest garden and park landscape ensembles in Europe (area 204.7 hectares)
- created in the English landscape style, but in general the composition resembles a forest with valleys and Swiss Alps in the center

"Exotic" in Monaco

The amazing state of Monaco delights with its extraordinary beauty. My story is about a small corner in a very small but unique Principality of Monaco - about a unique park with the corresponding name "Exotic"!

Ukraine. Kiev. Rosary of the Botanical Garden to them. N.N. Grishko


- harmoniously combines elements of regular and landscape style;
- This is the largest Rose Garden in Ukraine;
- the collection includes more than 150 of the best domestic and foreign varieties of roses of various garden groups.

France. Val-de-marne. Lay-le-rose. Rosary and Museum

Noteworthy because:
- a museum of roses of classical regular layout;
- by 1910 there were already about 8 thousand varieties and types of roses,
- divided into separate collections and thematic sections;
- This is the first Rose Museum, where scientific work was put up to the proper level.

France. Paris. Rose garden in Bagatelle Park

Noteworthy because:
- this is a classic rose garden with a regular layout;
- the regular layout of the garden immerses you in the era of the reign of King Louis;
- there is an exact copy of this garden in Japan.

The park in Bogoroditsk near Tula occupies a special place in the history of Russian landscape art. Firstly, due to the fact that it was created in that crucial period when the new landscape style of park building was just beginning its triumphant march through the numerous estates scattered across the central and remote provinces of Russia. At this point, the question of whether they would follow foreign models or go their own ways, based primarily on the local climatic conditions, the prevailing national cultural traditions, and the rich domestic experience of garden architecture, was being decided.

Central Park of Culture and Rest in Leningrad. Nikolsky A.S.

« Central park culture and recreation in Leningrad ". Nikolsky A.S. Published according to the edition “Problems of garden and park architecture. Digest of articles". Publishing house of the All-Union Academy of Architecture. Moscow. 1936. The history of the Leningrad Central Park of Culture and Leisure begins on December 3, 1931, when the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, in their historic decision on the socialist reconstruction of Leningrad, decided to create a culture and recreation park with a large sports stadium on Elagin and Krestovsky Islands. In 1932, the Leningrad Central Park of Culture and Leisure launched its work only on Elagin Island with its wonderful, well-preserved park. Krestovsky Island, this bare, swampy, wind-blown lowland, had yet to receive its own park.

Park them. Kirov in Baku. Ilyin L.A.

“Park named after Kirov in Baku ". Ilyin L.A. Published according to the edition “Problems of garden and park architecture. Digest of articles". Publishing house of the All-Union Academy of Architecture. Moscow. 1936. Pronounced features geographic location Baku, dry desert conditions, difficult for park construction, make this experience not only interesting in terms of overcoming nature and its simultaneous use, but also instructive for the practice of park composition in similar and close conditions. The park is located on the slopes of hills and plateaus - the highest spurs of the Caucasian ridge within the city at its exit to the Caspian Sea. On the entire coast south of Makhach-Kala, there is not a single point where the mountains are so close and so relief approach to the sea.

Ensemble of the Catherine Park of Tsarskoe Selo

Ensemble Catherine Park: Regular part of the Catherine Park (Old Garden). Garden sculpture. Hermitage Museum. Grotto. Hall on the Big Pond Island. Granite terrace. Top bath. Lower bath. Hermitage kitchen. Admiralty. Sadovaya Embankment and Lower Ponds. The landscape part of the Catherine Park. Tower ruin. Chesme column. Cahul obelisk. Moray Column. Crimean column. Turkish sauna... Palladium bridge. A hill made of "wild stone", "Pudostsky bridge" and the Red cascade. Gatchina gate. Pyramid. Monument to A.D. Lansky. Concert hall. The kitchen is a ruin. Small whim. Evening hall. Cast iron gazebo. Gothic gate. Gate "To my dear colleagues". Cadet gate. Fountain "Milkmaid".

Ensemble of Alexander Park Tsarskoe Selo

The ensemble of the Alexander Park: The regular part of the Alexander Park (New Garden). Chinese village... Great whim. Chinese theater. Cross bridge. Creaky gazebo. Chinese bridges. Alexander Palace. Landscape part of the Alexander Park. Chapelle. White Tower. Farm. Pension stables. Lama pavilion. Arsenal. Fedorovsky town. The Egyptian Gates. Babolovsky palace and park. Alexandrovsky Park, due to the difference in natural resources and historical features of the formation, is significantly different in nature from the Catherine Park. The oldest part of Aleksandrovsky Park - Novy Sad - is planned in a regular style. The layout of the landscape part of the park was carried out only at the beginning of the 19th century.

Summer Garden in St. Petersburg

Peter I chose a place for his summer residence on the left bank of the Neva, at the mouth of the river. Erika (Fontanka), almost opposite the Peter and Paul Fortress. The garden was founded in 1704-1706. and at first took only northern part site that goes directly to the Neva. At the same time, the main contours of that system of straight alleys perpendicular to each other were determined, which in general terms has come down to our time. Some researchers believe that the owner of the garden himself outlined the direction of the alleys, the position of the first flower beds and fountains, but the first plan of the Summer Garden known to us was drawn up by J. Roozen. This plan already shows the palace just built according to the project of D. Trezzini, which took not the central position on the site, but its northeastern corner next to the small harbor on the Fontanka ...

Historical sketch of the development of the palace and park ensembles of Tsarskoye Selo

The ensembles of palaces and parks in Tsarskoe Selo were formed over a century and a half. There are four stages in their formation. The first of them is 1710-1720. This is the time of the emergence of the suburban royal residence - Sarskaya manor, with a small stone palace Catherine I and a regular garden. In the middle of the 18th century, after the reconstruction of the palace, redevelopment and expansion of the parks, the Sarskaya manor turned into a grandiose ensemble, surpassing in size all other palace residences in Russia. The next period began in the 1760s and 1770s, simultaneously with the emergence of a new style in Russian architecture - classicism. The work carried out at this stage to create landscape parks in the area adjacent to the old regular gardens was not fully completed at the end of the 18th century. They continued in the first half of the 19th century.

Fountains of Peterhof

The ensemble of parks, palaces and fountains of Peterhof-Petrodvorets, located 29 km from Leningrad and emerged in the first quarter of the 18th century, is a kind of triumphal monument in honor of the successful completion of Russia's struggle for access to Baltic Sea. Regular parks, 144 fountains and 3 cascades, gilded statues of the gods and heroes of antiquity, the majestic architecture of the palaces - all this expresses the idea of ​​the triumph of Russia "feasting on the sea." The beginning of the construction of Peterhof dates back to 1714. The idea of ​​creating the ensemble (the main layout scheme of the central and eastern parts of the Lower Park, the connection into one compositional whole of the palace, the grotto with a cascade and the canal) belongs to Peter I. Often, referring to the desire of Peter I to see here in Peterhof a residence that "befits the first sovereigns" ...

Architectural and park ensemble of Kuskovo

The architectural and park ensemble of Kuskovo is one of the remarkable monuments of Russian art. Created in the 18th century, it fully absorbed the achievements of manor construction of the era. Peculiar architectural ensembles near Moscow became widespread at the end of the first third of the 18th century, when the noble nobility returned to the ancient ancestral estates. Of the surviving estates near Moscow, Kuskovo is the earliest, giving an idea of ​​the type of Elizabethan estates. It was located 7 versts from Moscow, between the Vladimir and Ryazan roads. Since 1715, these lands belonged to an associate of Peter I - a prominent military leader, the hero of the Battle of Poltava, Field Marshal B.P. Sheremetev. The Kuskovo ensemble was created over several decades. In 1755, a large pond was dug here, which made it possible to drain the low and swampy place ...

Manor Ostankino

The ancient Ostankino estate near Moscow is of particular interest to us because its ensemble was formed mainly in a very short period of time - 10 years, although it has existed since the 16th century. Another feature is its "entertainment" purpose, which is reflected in the specific nature of the garden compositions. Ostankino is a unique monument of Russian culture of the 18th century, an amazing example of a creative synthesis of architecture, landscape gardening, theater, painting, sculpture, and decorative and applied crafts, which merged into a single artistic whole. The manor, palace, park and everything that is in them was created by the talent and labor of hundreds of peasants, artisans and craftsmen. The Ostankino Gardens are an integral part of this one-of-a-kind ensemble ...

Pavlovsky park

When in Tsarskoe Selo the Big Catherine Palace, on the site of the future Pavlovsk there were still dense forests, the silence of which was occasionally broken only by court hunts. Pavlovsky Park is younger than Tsarskoye Selo and other imperial residences in the vicinity of St. Petersburg, it is better preserved. It reflects in its purest form the heyday of Russian classicism, it was created in a fairly short time - 50 years - and is distinguished by the special artistic integrity of its ensemble - gardens, architecture, sculpture. This is a one-of-a-kind example of Russian landscape architecture, a renowned masterpiece, in which new trends in landscape gardening have found the fullest expression ...

Palace and park complex of Tsarskoe Selo

Country residence Peter I's wife Ekaterina Alekseevna Tsarskoe Selo was founded in 1708, 6 years after the liberation of Koporye from the Swedish troops. It was located on the site of the former Swedish "Sarskaya manor" in a picturesque and vast area, on a gentle hill, near the small river Vangazi. At first, old wooden buildings, an orchard, and a pond became the core of the future estate. After 1716, when the wooden Assumption Church was built here, Sarskaya Manor ("Manor Island") received the name Tsarskoe Selo. The creation of the first stone chambers here, the expansion of outbuildings also belong to this time. Unlike the palace and park complexes of Peter I, Catherine's estate retained the appearance of a Russian estate for a long time and reflected in its appearance a traditional and simple way of life ...

Memorial complex "Mound of Glory" in Minsk

The Mound of Glory immortalized the feat of arms Soviet army and partisans. It was laid down on September 30, 1966. The land of Belarus mixed in it with the land of hero cities and other places that glorified themselves with military and labor achievements. A memorial was erected to the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis. The grand opening took place on July 5, 1969. Its authors are sculptors A. Bembel, A. Artimovich, architects O. Stakhovich, L. Mitskevich and engineer V. Laptsevich. The mound, 70 meters 60 centimeters high, is crowned with four bayonets, symbolizing the four fronts that liberated Belarus. At the base of the bayonets, which are fastened by a two-meter-high ribbon-belt, are the mosaic orders of Glory and the Patriotic War.

Gardens of Granada. Alhambra and Generalif. Alhambra & Generalife

Borrowing the experience of Egypt and Rome in the construction of irrigation facilities, the Arabs were able to use the melting of snow on mountain peaks and created a powerful hydrotechnical system, turning waterless Spain into a flourishing land. A new type of garden was formed here - the Spanish-Moorish one. This is a small courtyard (200-1200 m²) of the atrium-peristyle type (patio), surrounded by the walls of the house or a fence, is a continuation of the ceremonial and living quarters in the open air. The complex of such miniature patios, included in the complex structure of the palace, represent the gardens of Grenada, created in the 13th century. in the residences of the caliphs - Alhambra(650 X 200 m) and Generalife(area 80X100 m). In the Alhambra, the premises of the palace were grouped around the Court of Myrtle and the Court of Lions. The myrtle courtyard (47 x 33 m) is surrounded by walls of buildings with a graceful arcade, richly decorated with ornaments.

Versailles. Parc de versailles

The town of Versailles, located near Paris, was a royal estate and was a flat wetland, partly covered with small forests. On this territory in the period from 1661 to 1700, Le Nôtre, together with arch. Levo and Mansart and the artist Lebrun created a palace and park ensemble. Its size is immense: the so-called Small Park occupied an area of ​​1,738 hectares, and the adjacent Big Hunting Park - 6,600 hectares. First, preliminary work began on the preparation of the territory - drainage of the area with the help of canals, the creation of reservoirs that feed the water devices of the park, and the filling of land over a large area. A huge number of trees were brought for planting from various regions of France and other countries. However, despite all the efforts, the planting was short-lived and after 150 years some of the trees had to be replaced.

Vaux-le-Vicomte. Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

Vaux-le-Vicomte - (French Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte) - a classic French manor-palace of the 17th century, located in the vicinity of Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris. Built for Nicolas Fouquet, Viscount Vaud et Melun, Superintendent of Finance under Louis XIV. The park ensemble was created by A. Le Nôtre together with the architect. Levo and the artist Lebrun. When laying the garden (1656-1661), 18 thousand people worked. On a vast territory, 3 villages were demolished, a forest was cut down, the relief was transformed, and the riverbed was changed. The area of ​​the park is 100 hectares. In its northern part there is a palace surrounded by a canal in the spirit of ancient castles, which is the center of the composition. The palace faces the park with its southern facade. From it, three low terraces gently descend to the south, a wide strip of open space, framed by arrays of bosquets.

Stowe Park. Stowe landscape gardens

Stowe Park(Stowe Landscape Gardens) is located 96 km from London. The area of ​​the park is 100 hectares, and together with the adjacent lands that make up one whole with it - 500 hectares. Initially, there was a regular park created by arch. J. Vanberg, in 1714 it was rebuilt by architect. C. Bridgman, and in 1738 - W. Kent and L. Brown. The center of the composition is the palace, which stands at elevated relief levels in the alignment of an open meadow stretching from north to south and forming the main axis of the park. A pond is arranged in the lower part - its second compositional center. The volumetric-spatial solution is based on a combination of alternating closed arrays with open spaces of a reservoir and lawns, where freestanding trees and groups form landscape paintings. The park is full of structures in the spirit of romanticism, stylistically associated with the architecture of the palace.

Villa Lante. Villa Lante

The construction of Villa Lante was also carried out according to the project of architect. Barozzi da Vignola in the 50s of the 16th century. It is located in the town of Bagnaya, 84 km from Rome. The owner of the villa was the Duke of Montalto, the garden area is 1.5 hectares, the relief is 16 m. Here, as in the Villa Caprarola, the theme of a stream flowing down from the mountain and forming the longitudinal axis of the garden is used. However, despite the general similarity of the plan, the solution to this topic is significantly different. The architect, "dividing" the house into two volumes and placing them symmetrically to the axis, seemed to push the path apart by a stream. The lower terrace - the entrance to the garden - is designed as a flat parterre (75X75 m), divided into a series of squares. Their module includes a water parterre with a round island in the center, where a sculptural group of young men (height 10 m), supporting the coat of arms of Montalto with their hands, creates a monumental vertical.

Villa d "Este. Villa Tivoli. Villa d" Este

Villa d "Este", Villa Tivoli (Italian "villa d" Este ") is located 80 km from Rome in the city of Tivoli, its owner was Cardinal d" Este. Built in the 40s of the XVI century. Author - architect Pirro Ligorio, water devices were created by engineer Olivieri.The area of ​​the garden is 3.5 hectares, the relief is 35 m.The palace is located at the top point, and a garden is laid out on the slope. parterre (70X70 m). Mutually perpendicular roads form rectangles of bosquets. The main axis is directed from the lower parterre to the palace. axes and Fountain of Dragons providing powerful vertical accents.

Sefton Park in Liverpool. Sefton Park. Liverpool

Sefton Park in Liverpool (Sefton Park. Liverpool). The author is arch. E. Andre. The construction of the park began in 1867 on an area of ​​156 hectares. The area was previously used as farmland and was surrounded by private buildings. From north to south, it was crossed by a channel, which was then turned into a series of artificial ponds and streams. The park has clear functional zoning and includes sports lawns, a garden, a deer park, a restaurant, music pavilion and a botanical garden, set aside in a separate plot with its own layout. The road network forms ellipses, circles, and gentle curves in plan to enclose the outlines of open spaces. Due to the large scale, road lines are not perceived in nature as geometric curves. Along the periphery, there is a horse-riding road and shelters for recreation.

Villa Farnese. Caprarola Castle. Villa Farnese

Villa Farnese, also known as Caprarola Castle. 70 km from Rome, near the town of Caprarola, architect. Barozzi da Vignola in 1547-1550 built a castle for Cardinal Farnese. Above the slope, 300 meters from the castle, a small house was built and a garden intended for secluded relaxation was laid out (an example of a "secret garden"). Despite its small size, the garden is designed in a monumental way - in large proportions, without unnecessary small details, using local material. Thus, it organically merges with the surrounding landscape and the castle ensemble. From the lower platform of the first level, decorated with a fountain, the road rises along a gentle ramp, decorated with a stream flowing down it and closed on both sides by walls, to the second level, a platform richly decorated with fountains and monumental sculptures of river gods.

The ensemble of the Shugakuin Imperial Villa in Kyoto

On the northeastern outskirts of Kyoto, the retired Emperor Gomitsuno planned the Shugakuin ensemble with an extensive garden-park. The first part of the work was completed between 1656 and 1659, but then, with a break, the work continued for several more years. The uniqueness of the Shugakuin composition among Japanese garden ensembles is associated with its location on three levels - terraces rising above each other along the mountainside. This is what determined the general spatial structure of the ensemble and the specific solution to each of its parts. Unlike Katsura, the main scale and main emotional tone of the Shugakuin was set in the background - the view of the distant silhouettes of mountains and trees (which is called "sakkei"), and all artificially constructed elements of the garden became the foreground of the composition and received a subordinate role.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

One of the first public ensembles of post-war Japan - Hiroshima Peace Park(architect Kenzo Tange, 1949-1956), conceived and implemented as a synthesis of national and modern spatial and constructive plastic ideas. The park is located on the territory of the former Nakajima District, which was completely destroyed as a result of the atomic bombing. Japanese city Hiroshima in 1945. On an area of ​​12.2 hectares there are Memorial museum Peace, many monuments, ritual bell and cenotaph. The ensemble consists of a vast area for demonstrations (it is covered with white pebbles) with a laconic and mournful monument-arch (Monument "Flame of Peace"), light, raised on the pillars of the buildings of the museum, the administrative building and the library. The skeleton of one of the few buildings that survived the atomic bombing visible in the background is also visually included in the ensemble.

o Myoshinji Monastery Gardens in Kyoto

Boboli Gardens. Giardino di boboli

Boboli Gardens (Italian: Giardino di Boboli) is a famous park in Florence, one of the best park ensembles of the Italian Renaissance. The Boboli Gardens are located on the slopes of the Boboli hill behind Palazzo Pitti, the main residence of the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany and are one of the most famous works of landscape gardening. art of the XVI century. In accordance with the tastes of that time, the park is divided by long axial paths, wide gravel paths, it is decorated with decorative stone elements, statues and fountains. The Boboli Gardens are divided into a private limited area and a public area with grottoes, nymphs, open garden temples with classical colonnades. An unusual feature of the Boboli Gardens for its time is the magnificent views of the city opening from them.

Joruridzi monastery garden in Kyoto

The garden of Joruridzi Monastery on the outskirts of Kyoto belongs to the rarest type of gardens of the Heian era of the Amidian type. The building of the temple was built in 1107; it was installed in the present place in 1157. It is considered one of the finest examples of Buddhist temple architecture in the late Heian period. On east coast the pond among the trees is a graceful pagoda originally erected in Kyoto and moved here in 1178. The temple and pagoda are located opposite each other, symbolizing the eastern and western Buddhist paradise. The layout of the garden near the temple is an attempt to find and express in the components of living nature a symbolic expression of the world order, highest point which is the "Western Paradise of Buddha Amida". Just as there was no fundamental difference between religious and secular architecture, so close in their features are the Amidian temple gardens and the palace gardens.

Kinkakuji Temple Garden (Golden Pavilion) in Kyoto

Zen landscape gardens of considerable size often arose from shinden-type palace gardens. For example, Kitayama Palace, built by Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in 1397, was then converted into the Rokuonji Temple (Temple of the Deer Garden), or Kinkakuji (Golden Pavilion), and the garden was reconstructed in accordance with the aesthetic canons of Zen of the Rinzai school. Unlike earlier Japanese architecture, the meaning of such a work as the Golden Pavilion, its meaningfulness is revealed only in comparison with nature, unity with it. Architecture and nature become equal parts of the artistic image. But natural nature, not artistically organized, could not enter into this unity, it had to be transformed in accordance with the same principles that were guided by the architect-builder.

Ginkakuji Temple Garden (Silver Pavilion) in Kyoto

Silver Pavilion - Ginkakuji (or Higashiyama-den, official name temple - Jisho-ji), built in 1489 by the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa under the impression of the Golden Pavilion of Kinkaku-ji, which was built by his grandfather Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and later became Buddhist temple... In the history of Japanese architecture, the Silver Pavilion is a transitional phenomenon, it combines the features of the Shinden style with new elements of residential architecture of the so-called Shoin style. Like the Golden Pavilion, it stands on the shore of the lake, and retractable walls (a new feature of the Shoin style) directly separate the interior from the garden space. When the walls are pulled apart, this separation disappears and nature, as it were, enters the interior of the house. This fusion with the natural environment was reflected in the spatial solution of the interior and, moreover, in the whole concept of architecture, its new connection with the environment.

Tofukuji monastery gardens in Kyoto

Tofukuji is a Buddhist temple complex in the southeast of Kyoto. The Sammon Temple Gate is the oldest Zen temple gate in Japan and is a national treasure. The height of the building is 22 meters. Within the territory of temple complex there are many gardens, the largest of which are North, South, West, East and Hojo garden. Mirei Shigemori, author of one of the most famous modern temple ensembles of Komyo-in at Tofukuji monastery in Kyoto (1939). The entire "vocabulary" of Mirei Shigemori's art dates back to Zen symbolic gardens (such as kare san-sui), but the very use of well-known symbols, their combination and contrast in one composition mark the masters with a new vision and sensation. Shigemori, before becoming a garden designer, diligently studied the history of gardening, measured and made plans for more than 500 gardens.

When you travel around different countries, for sure, your tourist program includes not only visits to museums, but walks around the city with views of the natural beauty of the city or area. Many cities boast beautiful parks and gardens that are definitely worth a visit. If it can be done in good weather, you will get a lot of positive impressions and, of course, a lot of vivid photos that will remain in memory of an unforgettable trip.

So which gardens and parks in the world are worth adding to your travel list?

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1. Keukenhof park in the Netherlands

Keukenhof is a flower park located in the small town of Lisse in the south of the Netherlands. With an area of ​​32 hectares, it is the largest flower park in the world. Open every year from mid-March to mid-May, the park has over 7 million flowers and wonderful colorful décor that will serve as a wonderful backdrop for your photos. Tulips become the real Keukenhof stars in the spring.

2. Gardens of the Alhambra in Spain

In the arid Andalusia, the gardens of the Alhambra palace complex in Granada are a saving oasis of greenery and freshness. Must-sees are the Partal Gardens and the Nasrid Palace Gardens. Don't miss the opportunity to admire the views of the Albaycín hills.

3. Gardens of Villa Borghese in Italy

The extensive gardens of Villa Borghese cover an area of ​​80 hectares and are the most spectacular in Rome. Illustrating the Romans' love for the city's Renaissance palaces and fountains, these gardens are now open to the public.

4. Bodnant Garden in Wales

Bodnant is one of the most beautiful gardens in Wales. It is located in the southeast of the terraced park and overlooks the Conwy River. The garden is especially beautiful in spring, when rhododendrons, magnolias and camellias are in bloom.

5. Gardens of the Castle of Villandry in France

The opulent Renaissance-style gardens of Villandry Castle are halfway between Tours and Azay-le-Rideau. They were restored at the beginning of the 20th century by Dr. Joaquim Carvallo. The area is divided into four main gardens: an ornamental, an aquatic, a garden with many different herbs and a garden with geometric motifs.

6. Gardens of Suzhou in China

The classical gardens of Suzhou are called some of the most beautiful in all of China because they represent true masterpieces of Chinese landscape art from the 11th to the 19th century. Nine of these gardens are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

7. Butchart Gardens in Canada

The Butchart Flower Gardens are located in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, near Victoria on Vancouver Island. It is a very famous attraction that is visited by over a million tourists every year.

8. Majorelle garden in Morocco

The Majorelle Subtropical Garden in Marrakech was founded in 1923 by the French artist Jacques Majorelle. And although the garden was subsequently abandoned for decades, the famous couturier Yves Saint Laurent saved it in 1960. Thanks to him, tourists who come to this pearl of the Middle East have the opportunity to stroll through this beautiful garden, where palm trees, cacti, bougainvillea, banana and laurel trees coexist.

9. Rikugien garden in Japan

Rikugien - traditional japanese park, which is one of the main attractions of Tokyo. It is considered one of the most beautiful gardens of the Edo period and represents an important aspect of Japanese art, where a small pond in the center is surrounded by many beautiful islets, trees, hills.

10. Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in Africa

Kirstenbosch is located on the eastern slope of Table Mountain in the Cape Town suburb. It was founded in 1913 and today covers an area of ​​528 hectares. Kirstenbosch is one of the most famous gardens in the world thanks to its collection and its unique location.

11. Claude Monet's garden in France

Claude Monet's garden in Giverny (Normandy) has received the official status of Outstanding, it represents the revived universe of his painting "Nymphae". Vaults of terrestrial plants surround a dazzling massive " water garden"In the shade of weeping willows. Connoisseurs of the legendary impressionist will be happy to visit this one in literally picturesque garden.

12. Park complex of Peterhof in Russia

The 102 hectares of Peterhof Park near St. Petersburg include the Upper Garden in the French style with three large fountains and the Lower Garden in the English style, which includes the famous Grand Cascade at Peterhof. In sunny weather, the parks of Peterhof are truly dazzling - like the dazzling statues of the Grand Cascade, covered with gold.

13. Inveryu Garden in Scotland

Invereu is a true subtropical paradise deep in the mountains, very popular with tourists in rainy Scotland. Blue poppies, Californian erythrons and countless plants from South America as well as eucalyptus trees from Tasmania and Australia.

14. Eirignac Gardens in France

Located in the heart of the historical area of ​​Périgord, the Eyrignac Gardens include vegetation in the form of geometric shapes, originally designed in the 18th century. These gardens are made up of trees with dazzling green crowns: cypress, yew, boxwood. In 2004, the French Ministry of Culture awarded these gardens the status of Outstanding (Jardin Remarquable).

15. Gardens of Villa Lante in Italy

In northern Lazio, you will find Villa Lante with Italian Renaissance gardens. A feature of these gardens, classified as Grandi Giardini Italiani (Great italian gardens), are its waterfalls, fountains and cascades.

16. Park Nong Nooch in Thailand

Nong Nooch is located near Pattaya and is famous for its tropical gardens, teeming with different varieties of orchids, ferns and other exotic flowers. There are also many animals that deserve the attention of a foreign tourist.

17. Park of the castle Courans in France

The Renaissance-style Courans castle is located 50 km south of Paris. This castle is surrounded by a park that can be called one of the most beautiful water parks of the 16th century.

18.Het Loo palace park in the Netherlands

The park, located in Apeldoorn, in the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands, was designed by Claude Dego, a renowned French gardener and nephew and protégé of renowned landscape architect André Le Nôtre. The park is preserved to this day in the form in which it was created when it was founded in the 18th century.