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21 Gardens & Parks

#1 Gardens of Versailles - France
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The Gardens of Versailles occupy part of what was once the Domaine royal de Versailles, the royal demesne of the château of Versailles. Situated to the west of the palace, the gardens cover some 800 hectares of land, much of which is landscaped in the classic French formal garden style perfected here by André Le Nôtre. In addition to the meticulous manicured lawns, parterres, and sculptures are the fountains, which are located throughout the garden
Place d'Armes, 78000 Versailles, F
Tel.: +33 (0)1 308 378 00
#2 Cala Mariolu, Ispuligedenie, Sardinia, Italy
Image: Emanuela Chinato
Perhaps the most spectacular beach in Europe can be found at the Gulf of Orsosei at the island of Sardinia in Italy. Swimming in Cala Mariolu you will notice some areas where the water temperature decreases considerably (up to 10 degrees less). In this case you are surely swimming over a karstic freshwater spring. The water comes from real freshwater volcanoes at depths greater than 10 meters. The fresh water combined with the calcareous rocks produces the turquoise colors and light effects typical of the Gulf of Orosei.
Ispuligidenìe, 08040 Baunei NU, I
#3 Kenroku-en Garden in Kanazawa - Japan
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Kenroku-en is one of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan, constructed during the Edo period (1603 - 1868) by the Maeda clan. The garden combines the six classical attributes of a perfect garden: spaciousness & seclusion, artifice & antiquity, water-courses & panoramas. As a strolling-style landscape garden, it incorporates fancy designs in every corner, achieving peerless scenery in each season.
1 Kenrokumachi, 920-0936 Kanazawa, Ishikawa , JP
Tel.: +81 (0)76 234 38 00
#4 Navagio (shipwreck) Bay, Zakynthos - Greece
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One of the most spectacular beaches is the Navagio (shipwreck) Bay on the island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea of Greece. Zakynthos is a major tourist destination, especially amongst British tourists - so the beach might be rather crowded. You might want to take a hike across the cliffs and enjoy the breathtaking view.
Navagio Bay, Zakynthos,
#5 Villa d'Este - Italy
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The Villa d'Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome, famous for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and especially for its profusion of fountains. The Villa was commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este (1509–1572). It is now an Italian state museum, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
More Info on Wikipedia
Piaza Trento 5, 00019 Tivoli, Rome, IT
Tel.: +39 (0)774 5589
#6 Pink Beach - Komodo Island, Indonesia
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The Pink Beach on the Indonesian Island of Komodo is one of only seven in the world. The sand appears pink because it is a mixture of white sand and red sand, formed from pieces of Foraminifera - a single-celled Organism. The Komodo island is particularly notable as the habitat of the Komodo dragon, the largest lizard on Earth. In 1991 the Komodo National Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In April 2019, Indonesian authorities announced a plan to close Komodo Island to tourism for a limited period to allow for conservation efforts amid concerns over animal-smuggling. Check it out before you go!
#7 Gardens by the Bay - Singapore
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The Gardens by the Bay is a nature park spanning 101 ha in the Central Region of Singapore, adjacent to the Marina Reservoir. The park consists of three waterfront gardens: Bay South Garden (in Marina South), Bay East Garden (in Marina East) and Bay Central Garden (in Downtown Core and Kallang). The largest of the gardens is the Bay South Garden, designed by Grant Associates. Its Flower Dome is the largest glass greenhouse in the world. Gardens by the Bay was part of the nation's plans to transform its "Garden City" to a "City in a Garden".
18 Marina Gardens Drive, 018953 Singapore, SG
Tel.: +65 (0)642 068 48
e-Mail: feedback@gardensbythebay.com.sg
#8 Brooklyn Botanic Garden - USA
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City occupies 21 ha in central Brooklyn, close to Mount Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum. Designed by the Olmsted Brothers, the garden holds over 14,000 taxa of plants and has over 800,000 visitors each year. It hosts numerous educational programs, plant-science and conservation, and community horticulture initiatives, in addition to a herbarium collection. The site of Brooklyn Botanic Garden was first designated in 1897.
More details from Wikipedia
150 Eastern Parkway, 11225 Brooklyn, NY, US
Tel.: +1 718 623 72 60
e-Mail: visitorservices@bbg.org
#9 Nong Nooch Botanical Garden - Thailand
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Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden is a botanical garden and tourist attraction in the Chonburi Province of Thailand. Located on Sukhumvit road, it can be reached by car or bus from Pattaya City within 35 minutes. It is also a major scientific center dedicated to cycads, with its own Cycad Gene Bank. With 2.0 km2 in size, Nong Nooch is the largest botanical garden in Southeast Asia with one of the Top Ten World's largest living Tropical Plant collections.
34 Na Chom Thian, 20250 Sattahip District, Chon Buri , TH
Tel.: +66 (0)38 238 160
e-Mail: info@nongnoochtropicalgarden.com
#10 Jardin Majorelle - Morocco
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The Majorelle Garden is a one-hectare botanical and artist's landscape garden in Marrakesh. It was created by the French Orientalist artist Jacques Majorelle over almost forty years, starting in 1923, and features a Cubist villa designed by French architect Paul Sinoir in the 1930s. The property was the residence of the artist and his wife from 1923 until their divorce in the 1950s. In the 1980s, the property was purchased by the fashion designers Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé who worked to restore it. Today, the garden and villa complex is open to the public. The villa houses the Berber Museum and in 2017 the Yves Saint Laurent Museum opened nearby.
More Details on Wikipedia
Rue Yves St Laurent, 40090 Marrakech , MA
Tel.: +212 (0)5242 986 86
#11 The Ruth Bancroft Garden & Nursery - USA
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The Ruth Bancroft Garden is a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) public dry garden established by Ruth Bancroft. It contains more than 2,000 cactus, succulents, trees, and shrubs native to California, Mexico, Chile, South Africa, and Australia. In 1989, it became the first garden in the United States to be preserved by The Garden Conservancy, and has been open to the public since 1992. Sculpture exhibits, tours, landscape design services, wedding location.
1552 Bancroft Rd, 94598 Walnut Creek, US
Tel.: +1 (925) 944 9352
e-Mail: info@ruthbancroftgarden.org
#12 Park Güell - Spain
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Park Güell is a privatized park composed of gardens and architectural elements located on Carmel Hill, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is located in La Salut, a neighborhood in the Gràcia district of Barcelona. With urbanization in mind, Eusebi Güell assigned the design of the park to Antoni Gaudí, a renowned architect and the face of Catalan modernism.
The park was built from 1900 to 1914 and was officially opened to the public in 1926. In 1984, UNESCO declared the park a World Heritage Site under "Works of Antoni Gaudí".
Virtual Tour
Gràcia, 08024 Barcelona, ES
Tel.: +34 (0)9 340 918 31
#13 Sculpture by the Lakes - UK
Image: Sculpture by the Lakes
Nestled in 26 acres of glorious countryside alongside Dorset’s River Frome, Sculpture by the Lakes is a perfectly curated oasis. It features over 120 sculptures by the renowned contemporary sculptor Simon Gudgeon and more than twenty other sculptors. It is also one of the eight botanical gardens of the UK. Simon and Monique Gudgeon are the creators of Sculpture by the Lakes.
Pallington Lakes, DT2 8QU Dorchester , UK
Tel.: +44 (0)7720 637808
e-Mail: office@sculpturebythelakes.co.uk
#14 The Lost Gardens of Heligan - UK
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Thirty Three years ago, The Lost Gardens of Heligan were rediscovered from the brambles of time. One of the UK's most popular gardens, they showcase the 19th-century Gardenesque style with diverse areas of different designs. Created by the Cornish Tremayne family from the mid-18th to early 20th centuries, the gardens are part of the family's Heligan estate. Neglected after WWI, they were restored in the 1990s, a process featured in various TV programs and books. The gardens boast ancient rhododendrons and camellias, lakes fed by a century-old ram pump, productive flower and vegetable gardens, an Italian garden, and "The Jungle," a wild area with subtropical tree ferns. Unique features include Europe's only surviving pineapple pit and two plant sculptures.
B3273, Pentewan, PL26 6EN Saint Austell, UK
Tel.: +44 (0)1726 845 100
#15 Claude Monet's House and Gardens - France
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Americans donated almost all of the $7 million needed to restore Monet's home and gardens at Giverny in the 1970s. The next ten years were spent restoring the garden and the house to their former state, because not much was left after the second World War. British gardener James Priest, who has been in charge of restorations made to Monet's garden, taught himself the ways of the painter, particularly Monet's watercoloring. The Gardens are divided into two distinctive parts, which have been restored according to Monet's own specifications, the formal Clos-Normand and the water garden with the water lilies pond and a Japanese bridge.
84 rue Claude Monet, 27620 Giverny, F
Tel.: +33 (0)2 32 51 28 21
e-Mail: contact@claudemonetgiverny.fr
#16 Royal Boranic Gardens, Kiew - UK
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Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and a World Heritage Site.
, TW9 3AE Richmond, London, UK
Tel.: +44 (0)20 8332 56 55
e-Mail: info@kew.org
#17 Madeira Botanical Garden - Portugal
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The Madeira Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in Funchal, on the island of Madeira in Portugal. It was opened to the public in 1960. The area was previously part of an estate belonging to the family of William Reid, founder of Reid's Hotel. The garden includes a bird park and a three-room Natural History Museum. There is also a collection of around 300 exotic birds, including Blue and Yellow Macaw, Cockatoo, Parrots and Lory in an exotic bird park.
Rui Vieira, Caminho do Meio, Bom Sucesso, 9064-512 Funchal - Madeira, PT
Tel.: +351 291 211 200
e-Mail: ifcn@madeira.gov.pt
#18 Botanical Grardens of Rio de Janeiro
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The Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden is located at the Jardim Botânico district in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The Garden shows the diversity of Brazilian and foreign flora. There are around 6,500 species (some endangered) distributed throughout an area of 54 hectares as well as numerous greenhouses. The garden also houses monuments of historical, artistic, and archaeological significance. There is an important research center, which includes the most complete library in the country specializing in botany with over 32,000 volumes.
R. Jardim Botânico, 1008, 22460-030 Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, BR
Tel.: +55 2138 741 808
e-Mail: ascom@jbrj.gov.br
#19 Eden Project - UK
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The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England, situated in a reclaimed china clay pit 2 km from St Blazey and 5 km from St Austell. The complex features several large enclosures with adjoining domes that house thousands of plant species, each simulating a natural biome. The biomes consist of hexagonal and pentagonal inflated cells supported by geodesic tubular steel domes. The larger biome is the world's largest indoor rainforest, while the second simulates a Mediterranean environment. There is also an outdoor botanical garden with native plants and wildlife of Cornwall and the UK, alongside plants with significant historical backgrounds, such as those with prehistoric heritage.
Eden Project, Bodelva, PL24 2SG Cornwall, UK
Tel.: 01726 811972
e-Mail: boxoffice@edenproject.com
#20 Pamplemousses Garden - Mauritius
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The Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanic Garden, commonly known as the Pamplemousses Botanic Garden, is a popular tourist attraction in Pamplemousses, near Port Louis, Mauritius, and the oldest botanical garden in the Southern Hemisphere. Famous for its long pond of giant water lilies (Victoria amazonica), the garden, first constructed by Pierre Poivre (1719 – 1786) in 1770, covers an area of around 37 hectares (91 acres). Could be a real gem of a garden, but unfortunately, maintainance leaves much to be desired.
VHWH+FJ9, Pamplemousses, Mauritius, MU
#21 Medellín Botanical Garden - Colombia
By Jorge Láscar - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
Since its inauguration in 1972, the Medellín Botanical Garden has collected 600 different species of tropical vegetation and flowers. A honeycomb-like pavilion, the Orquideorama, helps to protect an extensive orchid collection and butterfly reserve.
Calle 73, 51d-14 Medellín, CO
Tel.: +57 (604) 444 55 00
e-Mail: comunicaciones@jbotanico.org


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