Hestercombe has three different gardens from three different centuries: an eighteenth century landscape garden, a nineteenth century Victorian terrace and a model Edwardian formal garden designed by the most fashionable designers of their day at the height of their powers. Landscape gardens were built into the combe behind Hestercombe house by Coplestone Warre Bampfylde 1750s…
They are among the most beautiful parks in Europe: the Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover have been representative of (garden) design and culture of the highest quality for over 300 years. As a Baroque garden which has remained almost unchanged over the years, the Grosser Gartenimpresses with its formal layout, splendid parterre, water features, and colourful…
Villa Fabri and its garden form a link between the historical old town of Trevi and the Umbrian landscape. The building was constructed by Gerolano Fabri, who moved into it in 1603. A wrought-iron gate opens from Piazza Garibaldi to give a view of the villa’s north façade and the front garden of lawns, box…
Egeskov castle park was created by Niels Krag the Younger, who lived at Egeskov from 1722 to 1740. The inspiration for the park’s design came from the castle parks at Fredensborg and Frederiksborg as well as from the gardens at Versailles. The park consisted of four gardens surrounded by a network of hedges measuring up…
The Bardini Garden is a unique place where to admire Florence, the urban landscape, the monuments and the surroundings hills. The visit of Bardini garden is a tour through art and nature, crossing seven century of Florentine history till the present. The Bardini Garden occupies with its four hectares most of the hill that rises…
The long narrow garden is divided up into several linked rooms and combines many different styles of garden design: a landscape garden, where the visitor can become a stage extra and stroll along a curved path, a round garden – the ‘green room’, named after the rooms in English theatres where actors rehearse their lines,…
Villa Hohenhof was commissioned by Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874 – 1921), the cultural reformer from Hagen, and built between 1906 and 1908 according to plans drawn up by Belgian architect Henry van de Velde (1863 – 1957) . The overall plan for the villa was based on the idea of a Gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of…
Schloss Dyck is set in the midst of a picturesque English landscape garden. Spread over four islands, the moated castle and forecourts were given their Baroque appearance in the 17th century. Schloss Dyck has been in the ownership of the Princes and Counts of Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck for over 900 years. Thanks to support by public funds,…
Haus Welbergen is a relatively unknown treasure in the northern Münsterland. A walk along the extensive moat system is particularly worthwhile, as the paths continually provide charming views of the moated house. The well-tended gardens on the forecastle island are the most popular attraction for many visitors today. An atmospheric garden based on historical designs…
The Sculpture Park Waldfrieden is situated in the midst of an idyllic forested area in the hills above the Elberfeld and Barmen districts of Wuppertal. Mature deciduous trees line the serpentine road leading to the park, and several works by the British sculptor Tony Cragg can be spotted along the embankments of the entrance approach.…