The water chain of Villa Lante at Bagnaia, laid out in the sixteenth century

Le Roi du Jardin

Gardens, parks and designed landscapes.

Historic gardens and parks that are worth the journey in themselves

Explore the collection
  • 210places
  • 10Countries
  • 150From source records

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Provenance

This world opens with castles and estates whose Base Mérimée record mentions a garden. Gardens that exist as gardens — Villandry as a garden rather than as a castle — are not in the dataset yet. What follows is therefore what the source provides, not what the world will become.

210 places counted — 150 from source records · 55 from editorial work.

01 — The collection

Gardens, parks and designed landscapes.

Gardens and parks worth visiting in their own right — including those attached to a castle that already appears in Le Roi du Château.

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