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Le Roi du Jardin
Gardens, parks and designed landscapes.
Historic gardens and parks that are worth the journey in themselves
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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.
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.

Frogmore House
Windsor and Maidenhead
Frogmore House is a château at Windsor and Maidenhead, England, in the United Kingdom. The recorded building campaign dates from the 17th century. The register records it as “Grade I listed building”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
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Frogner Park
Frogner Park is a protected public park in central Oslo. The municipality describes a varied landscape of mature trees, lawns, roses and water. The Frogner River enters from the north and forms two ponds within the park. The Vigeland sculpture installation occupies part of the larger park and should not be confused with the whole site. Frogner Manor and the City Museum lie towards the Frogner side. Oslo municipality states that the park is open around the clock and admission is free.
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Generalife
The Generalife was an almunia owned by the sultan near the palatine city of the Alhambra. Enclosed by a wall, it combined a palace area with gardens, productive plots and areas for hunting and extensive livestock farming. It stands on the hill now called Cerro del Sol.
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Geneva Botanical Garden
Geneva’s botanical institution maintains living collections alongside an herbarium, scientific library, archives and seed, DNA and tissue banks. Its work includes research, conservation of threatened species, training and public education. The garden presents plants from varied ecosystems.
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Gibside
Gateshead · United Kingdom
Gibside is a château at Gateshead, England, in the United Kingdom. The register records it as “scheduled monument”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
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Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Glasgow Botanic Gardens were founded in 1817 by Thomas Hopkirk. They were originally located in the Sandyford area of Sauchiehall Street and moved to their present site in 1842. Glasgow’s council took over the gardens in 1891, agreeing to retain their botanical purpose.
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Great Dixter
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Hackwood House
Winslade · South East England
Hackwood House is a château at Winslade, in the United Kingdom. The recorded building campaign dates from the 17th century. The register records it as “Grade II* listed building”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
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Haddon Hall
Bakewell · East Midlands
Haddon Hall is a château at Bakewell, in the United Kingdom. Its architecture is recorded as Tudor architecture. The register records it as “Grade I listed building”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
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Hampton Court
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Hardwick Hall
Ault Hucknall · East Midlands
Hardwick Hall is a château at Ault Hucknall, in the United Kingdom. The recorded building campaign dates from the 16th century. Its architecture is recorded as Elizabethan architecture. The register records it as “Grade I listed building”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
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Harewood House
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Hatfield House
Hatfield · East of England
Hatfield House is a château at Hatfield, England, in the United Kingdom. The recorded building campaign dates from the 17th century. Its architecture is recorded as Tudor architecture. The register records it as “Grade I listed building”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
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Helmingham Hall
Helmingham · East of England
A moated courtyard house whose Tudor timber structure survives within later brick façades, surrounded by gardens and parkland.
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Hestercombe
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Het Loo
Apeldoorn
Het Loo is a château at Apeldoorn, Gelderland, in the Netherlands. The recorded building campaigns date from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The register records it as “rijksmonument”. Details are drawn from Rijksmonumentenregister.
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Hever Castle
Hever · South East England
Hever Castle is a château at Hever, in the United Kingdom. The recorded building campaign dates from the 13th century. The register records it as “Grade I listed building”. Details are drawn from Wikidata.
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Hortus Haren
Hortus Botanicus Haren occupies more than fourteen hectares. Its website traces the institution’s origins to 1642; this is not a date for the establishment of the present Haren site. Its named gardens include a Chinese Ming garden, the Laarman garden and the Hondsrug garden. The latter lies on the Hondsrug within the UNESCO Global Geopark.
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Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune
Beaune · Côte-d’Or
Échos polychromes is a contemporary garden in the Cour des Fondateurs within the physical Hôtel-Dieu complex at Beaune, France. The museum dates its inauguration to 2022. It identifies Stéphane Larcin and Géraldine Carré as designers and Baptiste Demeulemeester as responsible for implementation. Three geometric planted beds echo the glazed roof patterns. This Jardin reading concerns that courtyard, distinct from the Cour d’honneur, active hospital institution and wine estates.
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Jardin botanique du Château de Vauville
Vauville's botanical garden covers 4.5 hectares in the Cotentin. Its presentation emphasises plants from the southern hemisphere alongside a succession of green rooms. Botanist and perfumer Eric Pellerin began acclimatising plants here in 1948.
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Jardin des Plantes
Paris's Jardin des Plantes includes five formal beds along its central perspective. The Lamarck bed presents plants through their uses in society. Its botanical school grows nearly 2,500 species arranged by classification, linking the collection with botanical teaching.
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Jardin des Plantes Sauvages du Conservatoire botanique national de Bailleul
Bailleul's Jardin des Plantes Sauvages is a landscaped garden of 10,000 square metres with nearly 1,000 labelled plant species in themed plots. Its recreated natural habitats include dunes, wet meadows, calcareous grassland, heath and peat bog, presenting living examples for understanding conservation.
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Kasteel Amerongen
Utrechtse Heuvelrug
Kasteel Amerongen is a château at Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Utrecht, in the Netherlands. The recorded building campaigns date from the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The register records it as “rijksmonument”. Details are drawn from Rijksmonumentenregister.
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Kasteel Duivenvoorde
Voorschoten
Kasteel Duivenvoorde is a château at Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland, in the Netherlands. The recorded building campaigns date from the 13th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The register records it as “rijksmonument”. Details are drawn from Rijksmonumentenregister.
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