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The elements of a Renaissance garden come together in a poetic harmony at Villa Lante, northeast of Rome in the village of Bagnaia. Often quoted author of Italian Villas and Their Gardens, the novelist Edith Wharton found the setting to be a magical place when she visited in 1903. The survival of these gardens is commendable, as so many of the period have now vanished. Attributed to the great Mannerist architect, Vignola, Villa Lante began as the dream of Cardinal Gambara in the 16th century. The conversion of a hunting preserve became the glorious landscaped grounds we see today. Cardinal Peretti-Montalto tales credit for the creation of the central Fountain of the Moors.
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Once home to the doyen of 19th century English gardening, William Robinson’s historic Gravetye Manor is enjoying new life as a luxe country hotel and celebrated restaurant, just as the acclaimed gardens are regaining their rightful role. Having left his post at Great Dixter, Gravetye’s head gardener Tom Coward is managing the restoration of the property’s established gardenscape, while promising to add contemporary panache to planting beds, borders, and bucolic landscape.
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The City of Beverly Hills maintains the inviting landscape of Greystone Park and Mansion. Oil baron Edward Lawrence Doheny’s son, ‘Ned’ had Greystone built as his family residence in the late 1920s, calling upon a celebrated Southern California architect, Gordon B.Kaumann, to design the mansion. as a Southern California public park, Greystone is unique: A must-see destination. You’ll encounter restored terraces and extravagant sweeping lawns, myriad water features erected as focal points and the property’s meticulously maintained stonework; exhibiting the extensive use of pale Indiana limestone to set apart the mansion itself and the landscape architecture. The formal gardens are enhanced by handsome slate walkways, echoing the Welsh slate used for the mansion’s roof.
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