There is so many natural and man-made wonders on this planet one
cannot only start to make a list of them. I believe however that gardens
unite in some way the beauty creating power of nature and man, that is
why I want to share with you the top of the tops from my personal list
of the most beautiful gardens in the world.
I
have not been to all of them myself, but am still amazed of the beauty
and magic they are surrounded by and would love to hear from someone who
had been to any of these wonderful gardens. A top 5 is quite short so I
promise to come back later with separate posts for the most breathtaking gardens for every continent.
Quinta da Regaleira, Portugal
Quinta da Regaleira ©Flickr.Whisker/Flickr
Considered one of the most beautiful and mystical places on Earth, the Quinta da Regaleira estate is located close to the historical center of the Portuguese city, Sintra.
The heart of the estate is a beautiful palace which, together with the
garden girded by fountains, grottoes, lakes, a chapel and many more
fairy tale-like decorations is now on UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites list.
The garden itself is a 4 hectares large,
a thickly treed park full of narrow roads and paths. One part of the
garden is perfectly organized and arranged while the other part is left
to grow completely wild, I prefer the wilder area, it is somehow even
more magical than the rest of the estate.
Versailles, France
Versailles Shoshanah/Flickr
The iconic palace and its gardens in the elite outskirts of Paris was once the permanent residence of the French monarchs and their courts until the Great French Revolution, the garden also got a lot from the glamour of the palace complex.
The gardener of the Roi-Soleil (Louis XIV, the Sun King) names Andre Le Notre did not simply plan a garden for the king, but an entire baroque city
with trees, flowers, statues and large surfaces of water (lakes and
fountains) covering about 800 hectares of ground. Many of the statues,
fountains and other ‘decoration items’ also compete as individual
attractions.
Garden of Cosmic Speculation, Scotland
The Garden ©yellow book/Flickr
One of the most improbably and yet amazing places I have seen is the Garden of Cosmic Speculation in South-West Scotland
near Dumfries. The garden was created by half-Scottish architect
Charles Jencks inspired by feng shui, postmodern architecture and the
secrets of the universe.
Its special structure brings together such idiosyncratic elements such as the DNA molecule, fractals, black holes and other mathematical and scientific themes
and phenomena. It is combining the elements of nature with artificial
forms in a completely unique but nonetheless admirable way and though it
is neither classical nor the only amazing Scotish garden, I really like it.
Huntington Library Desert Garden, California
Desert Garden ©brendan-c/Flickr
Let us leave Europe for a while; the Huntington Institute is near the city of San Marino, California in the USA. It hosts numerous themed botanical gardens and they are all amazing, however, I would like to highlight one of them, the amazing Desert Garden.
It is basically a beautiful cactus garden that is not only meant to show how beautiful the many different cacti species (as well as agave, aloe, bromeliads and other desert plants)
are, but also that even the hostile desert climate can create wonderful
natural art-works. It is a most extraordinary place, it is a great
dream of mine to visit it once.
Bagh-e Fin, Iran
Bagh-e Fin ©ali reza_parsi/Flickr
And now in the finish we visit the mysterious East, more specifically Iran. Bagh-e Fin was established in 1590
and remains one of the oldest gardens in the country – the Persian
Empire back then. With cypress older than 400 years, fountains, tea
house and other tiny buildings the garden – according to Persian tradition – is meant to symbolize the paradise.
Bagh-e Fin covers about 2.5 hectares, it has got many water elements and its buildings are beautifully decorated in the Arabic style
with geometrical forms and quotes from the Qur’an. The pressure of the
water coming from the nearby hill was so strong that they could create
structures with circulating water without using any mechanical pump.
That’s something…
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