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Les Jardins Giusti

The Giusti Garden is one of the finest late Renaissance Italian gardens, and belongs to and is a splendid appendage to the Palazzo Giusti. Begun at the end of the 16th century, the garden was gradually completed and embellished. In this one, writes Vallotto, magnificence competes with nature and its construction must be defined “Italian style” by means of expedients, by juxtapositions with other congeners of Florence, Fiesole, Rome. The Second World War hit this garden hard: the plants, if they were not given away or cut, were terribly mutilated, and it was not taken into account whether they were common or valuable plants. Currently, thanks to the continuous active care given to it, the Garden has regained its pristine beauty.

Les Jardins de Boboli

Behind Palazzo Pitti lies the wonderful Boboli Gardens. The Medicis were the first to take care of its arrangement, creating the Italian garden model which became exemplary for many European courts. The vast green area, divided evenly, constitutes a veritable open-air museum, populated by ancient and Renaissance statues, decorated with grottoes, first of all the very famous one created by Bernardo Buontalenti, and large fountains, such as that of Neptune and of the Ocean.

Les Jardins de la Villa Gamberaia

A historic villa, built in the early 1600s and known for its magnificent gardens, Villa Gamberaia is located in the hills of Florence, about fifteen minutes’ drive from the city centre, in an exceptional position overlooking the Arno valley. The villa and its luxurious rooms are available for weddings, meetings, conferences and exhibitions. The villa and the apartments located within the property are available for rent to spend your vacation in Tuscany.

Les Jardins de la Villa Lante

Villa Lante is located in the locality of Bagnaia, near Viterbo, in the north of Lazio (Italy). Attributed to Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (although there is no period document to prove it), it has gardens representative of the mannerism of the “surprise gardens” of the Renaissance , comparable to those of Bomarzo. They are classified among the Grandi Giardini Italiani.

Le Jardin botanique de Coimbra

The Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra is located in the heart of the city.

This living museum extends over almost 12 hectares, where diverse collections of plants, some of which are centuries old, transport us to different regions of the world. The tropical and cold greenhouses, the Medical and Systematic Schools and its arboretum are home to more than 1500 species of plants. In addition, it has research greenhouses and nurseries and a team with technical knowledge in terms of botany, ecology and gardening.

Ruspoli Castle

Situated in northern Lazio, home to one of the most important Renaissance Gardens in Europe. The area has the greatest concentration of historic gardens in the world and is surrounded by vineyards, olive trees and Italy’s largest producers of hazel nut

The Garden of Ninfa

A truly striking garden, the garden of Ninfa comprises for 8 hestares with over 1000 plants, including cherry and ornamental apple trees that bloom spectacularly in spring, varieties of deciduous magnolias, birches, marsh iris and a sensational variety of Japanese maples.

Le Parc de la Villa Borghèse

The Villa Borghese Park occupies a large area in the heart of the city. The villa contains buildings, sculptures, monuments and fountains, the work of illustrious artists of Baroque, neoclassical and eclectic art, surrounded by secular trees, ponds, Italian gardens and large open spaces, created with great care. It offers its visitors historical and naturalistic itineraries as well as numerous cultural, recreational and sporting activities.

Jardin botanique de l’Université de Rome (Orto Botanico di Roma)

The Botanical Garden of Rome covers an area of about 12 hectares in the very heart of the city, occupying part of the archaeological area called Horti Getae, which in ancient times contained the thermal baths of Septimius Severus. View over around 3,500 plant species.

Jardin botanique de Pise (Orto e Museo Botanico)

Founded in 1543, it is one of the first university botanical garden in the world. It houses plants from five continents : succulents from African and American deserts; the aromatic plants of the Mediterranean maquis; the species of the Tuscan marshes; numerous secular trees and many others.

Jardin botanique de Palerme

One of the most beeutiful gardens in Italy, Regia Accademia degli Studi was created in 1779. For its new chair of botany and natural history, the Regia Accademia obtained modest land from the city to set up a small botanical garden dedicated to the cultivation of medicinal plants useful for education and public health.

Jardin botanique de Padoue

The world’s first university botanical garden was established in Padua in 1545, making the Botanical Garden of Padua the oldest surviving example of this type of cultural property. The Botanical Garden of Padua is the origin of botanical gardens in Europe and represents the birth of botanical science, scientific exchanges and the understanding of the relationship…

Jardin botanique de Paris (Arboretum)

The Paris arboretum has some 1,200 trees, which occupy different preserved natural environments – including a wetland, a reed bed and a limestone meadow. Discover the 650 species of deciduous and coniferous trees, carefully labelled, to get to know remarkable trees.

Jardin botanique de Paris (Bagatelle)

The Parc de Bagatelle is one of the City of Paris’s four botanical gardens. Giant trees, varied plant life, little bridges, rocks, caves, expanses of water and artificial waterfalls add to the charm and romantic aspect of the park. Admire the magnificent rose garden with 10,000 rose bushes from 1,200 different species.

Jardin botanique de Paris (Auteuil)

The Jardin des serres d’Auteuil is one of the four botanical gardens maintained by the City of Paris. Created in 1761 under Louis XV, this elegant garden is organised around a huge parterre in the traditional French style. Collections include rare plants, remarkable trees, a palm house, and a beautiful aviary.

Jardin du Lautaret

The Lautaret garden is located at an altitude of 2100 meters at the Col du Lautaret in the Hautes-Alpes. For more than 100 years, this garden has maintained and preserved a vast collection of 2000 species of flowers from the mountains of the world, in an exceptional landscape setting facing the glaciers of La Meije.

Jardin botanique de Paris (Parc floral)

Opened in 1969, the Parc Floral de Paris changes with the seasons, and is popular with plant and nature lovers. Along with the Parc de Bagatelle, École Du Breuil and the Jardin des Serres d’Auteuil, it forms the botanical garden of Paris. Extending over 28 hectares, the park has four distinct landscape spaces.

Jardin botanique de la Ville de Nice

This one-of-a-kind garden, which is divided into 40 zones and recreates natural environments, is a veritable open-air museum. Discover this exceptional site, with over 3,000 plant species on 3.5 hectares, whose uniqueness invites you to journey through the reconstitution of Mediterranean landscapes.

Jardin botanique de Metz

First known as “Parc Frescatelly”, the Botanical Garden is a 4.4-hectare landscape-style park, created in 1866. It offers many original plant collections: the arboretum with ginkgos, redwoods and bald cypress all centuries old; the rose garden, the scented garden, the grass collection and the perennial flowerbeds.

Les Jardins de La Fontaine

In 1745, the King of France, Louis XV, requested Jacques Philippe Mareschal design the gardens. Situated at the location of ancient remains, this is Europe’s first public garden featuring a classic 18th century garden and a mediterranean garden.

Les Jardins de Marqueyssac

A listed site around a castle covered with slate from the beginning of the 19th century , the romantic and picturesque gardens of Marqueyssac offer more than 6 kilometers of walks lined with 150,000 century-old hand-cut box trees and decorated with belvederes, rock gardens, wooden huts, dry stone.

Parc de Versailles

Au-delà des jardins proprement dits, s’étend le Parc qui les prolonge naturellement grâce, notamment, à deux immenses pièces d’eau : le Grand Canal et la pièce d’eau des Suisses.

Jardin botanique de Marnay sur Seine

A living museum of plants and a conservatory of biodiversity, the Marnay-sur-Seine botanical garden invites you to reconsider your relationship to the plant world. Stroll through the different parts of the garden arranged according to a route of around twenty themes: the path of evolution, the rose gardens, the medicinal plants, the condiment plants, the…

Les Jardins du Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

The Garden of Vaux-le-Vicomte is organized around a brilliantly controlled perspective , more than three kilometers long. By composing the staging of the castle and its setting in the space of 33 hectares cut in the heart of nature, André Le Nôtre and Louis le Vau achieve the most perfect harmony between architecture and landscape of the entire 17th century . The strength and nobility of its overall design, the abundance of water and surprises and its theatrical majesty make the garden of Vaux-le-Vicomte the founding work of a new art, that of French gardens. . They also make this theater an invitation to knowledge, imagination and pleasure.

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