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Garden Travel

'Great Gardens of Spain' Book Review

Copyright 2011 Anneli Bojstad and Eduardo Mencos: Frances Lincoln Ltd. $50.00

Book Review: Swedish author Anneli Bojstad teams up with her husband, the celebrated Spanish photographer Eduardo Mencos, to spotlight 40 alluring Spanish gardens, reaching across the countryside from north to south, onward to the Canary Islands, Mallorca and Menorca. — Great Gardens of Spain: Published by Frances Lincoln Ltd.

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Garden Touring

Urban Light by Artist Chris Burden

Chris Burden: Urban Light (Photo: Alice Joyce)

A sculptural installation by artist Chris Burden, this “forest of street lights” takes center stage on the LACMA campus.

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Garden Touring

Villa Adriana: Hadrian's Villa

Outside Rome, a bit southwest of the town of Tivoli in Lazio Province, the monumental Roman ruins of Villa Adriana stand as a testament to the ambitions and fancies of Emperor Hadrian. Based upon the emperor’s design and built in the 2nd century A.D., the site presents a remarkable fusion of ostentatious architecture – a vast complex of buildings and courtyards, canals and thermal baths – cradled within hundreds of acres of green terrain.

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