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Even if you are not a fan of greenery, squares and walks in the park, our top 10 most beautiful gardens from around the world will not leave you indifferent.
Some of the gardens on the list were created back in the sixteenth century, but have been perfectly preserved to this day with incredible architecture and cultural monuments of that time. Only photographs of these gardens will give rise to a feeling of calmness and forgotten harmony in the soul: that’s how beautiful they are visually.
10 Zhi Chang Yuan Garden
This garden has existed since the sixteenth century and used to be called the “Garden of Ecstasy”. The garden is very small, only 4 kilometers long, but visually it seems deep and widely spread. The garden has typical Chinese architecture and vegetation. In the garden there is a shallow but long pool, which rests on the pavilion. Around the pool are long branches of ivy and fluffy bushes that give the garden a bit of a wild, but incredibly beautiful look. The shore of the pool is framed by broken boulders that look like part of a mountain landscape.
9. Fina Gardens
The next garden in our top is located in Iran and is historical. The garden is considered completed since 1590, and it exists to this day. The area of the garden is 23 square meters, which is very large and impressive.
The courtyard in which the garden is located is itself surrounded by ramparts and towers, and tall trees grow along the paths lined with mosaics, including sprawling cypresses. All the water that flows in the garden descends from the mountain peaks through the sewerage system.
8. Kenroku-en garden in Ishikawa
This garden is a symbol of the Japanese city and is one of the unique and beautiful places around the world. The park’s name comes from the theory that every garden should have merit. For example, in it you can feel solitude and come to harmony. See the skill of the masters and the spirit of antiquity. Also in the garden there must be sources of moisture, that is, rivers or pools. And, of course, the garden itself must be extraordinarily beautiful.
Garden Kenroku-en has all the listed advantages.
7. Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg
The Mirabell Garden belongs to the cultural heritage of UNESCO. The garden itself was built in 1606, but it was remodeled and remodeled in 1690.
In this garden, you can observe a large number of beautiful fountains, planted in a circle with small flower beds. The garden has wide walking paths, along the curbs of which dwarf trees stretch.
Of course, you can also find sculptures in the garden, because it is a historical part of the city of Salzburg.
6. Majorelle Garden
Majorelle Garden stretches for almost fifty square meters, and it is located in Morocco. The garden is easy to distinguish from others due to the accumulation of vegetation with a bluish tint, and, by the way, the garden even has an owner – the famous Yves Saint Laurent.
This garden is one of the top fifty most beautiful gardens in the world and is a very popular place for tourists to visit.
In this garden, tourists can even visit the Art Museum, which houses paintings by the creator of the Majorelle Garden.
5. Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Judging by the name, you have already guessed the location of this garden. Yes, right in the heart of Melbourne. Its area is four hundred and four thousand six hundred eighty-six square meters. It managed to accommodate a children’s park, an observatory, and an open herbarium. Also, mass events are often held in the garden, for example, group yoga classes in the morning or interesting lectures, and live music concerts in the evenings.
The place is very popular with tourists.
4. Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
This is a famous and popular garden located in South Africa. The garden is not as ancient as its predecessors in the list, it was created in 1913. However, it is no less popular and beautiful place on earth, both for tourists and for the inhabitants of the country. During the years of its creation, Kirstenbosch was the first botanical garden of its kind, so this is a plus for its uniqueness.
In the garden, a popular and visited place is the territory where plants with unusual colors are grown: dark green and brown. Tourists from all over the world come to see the vegetation in this part of the garden.
3. Desert Botanical Garden
What do you associate with the desert? With orange color, a huge area of sand, dry thorns and tumbleweed? Come to Phoenix and you will no longer associate deserts with lifelessness and dryness.
After all, the botanical garden has collected more than twenty thousand samples of cacti and various plants that prefer the sandy soil of deserts.
2. Gardens of the Palace of Versailles
This garden is included in the list of one of the most beautiful gardens in Europe. It stretched over eight square kilometers, but managed to locate the palace of Louis XIV, on whose orders the garden was built. The fact is that the ruler liked to walk along the green and fresh lawns, now millions of annual tourists who come just to walk between the snow-white fountains and succulent plants like to do it.
The garden is really very beautiful, it is not for nothing that it is ranked among the most beautiful places in France. There you will see intricate paths, and views of the smooth surface of the lake and flowers of the most incredible colors.
1. Claude Monet’s garden
Another garden in France, which is included in the list of the most beautiful gardens in the country. The garden, as you understand from the name, belonged to Claude Monet, a French painter.
And the garden itself looks like a painting or a work of art. Plants, scattered as if randomly on the canvas, however, create incredible harmony and relevance. The painter himself grew most of the flowers in the garden, gradually and slowly turning it into a future work of art.
This place is a must for a tourist to visit, because a more beautiful garden is probably nowhere to be found.