Even if you are not a fan of greenery, squares and walks in the park, our top 10 most beautiful gardens from around the world will not leave you indifferent.
Some gardens from the list were created back in the sixteenth century, but have been perfectly preserved to this day with incredible architecture and cultural monuments of the time. Only photographs of these gardens give rise to a sense of calm and forgotten harmony in the soul: this is how beautiful they are visually.
10. Garden Zhi Chan Yuan
This garden has existed since the sixteenth century and previously had the name "Garden of Ecstasy." The garden is very small, only 4 kilometers, but visually it seems deep and wide spread. The garden has Chinese architecture and vegetation. There is a shallow but long pool in the garden, resting against the pavilion. Around the pool there are long branches of ivy and fluffy bushes that give the garden a slightly wild, but incredibly beautiful view. Split boulders, which look like part of a mountain landscape, frame the pool.
9. Fina Gardens
The next garden in our top is located in Iran and is historical. The garden is considered completed since 1590, it exists to this day. The area of the garden is 23,000 square meters, that is, very large and impressive.
The courtyard in which the garden is located is itself surrounded by ramparts and towers, and tall trees, including spreading cypresses, grow along mosaic-lined paths. All the water that flows in the garden, descends from the mountain peaks through the sewage system.
8. Kenroku-en Garden in Ishikawa
This garden is a symbol of the Japanese city and is one of the unique and beautiful places of the whole world. The name of the park originates in the theory that every garden should have virtues. For example, in it you can feel solitude and come to harmony. See the skill of the masters and the spirit of antiquity. Also, the garden must have sources of moisture, that is, rivers or pools. And, of course, the garden itself must be unusually beautiful.
Kenroku-en Garden has all of these benefits.
7. Mirabell Gardens in Salzburg
Mirabell Garden belongs to the cultural heritage of UNESCO. The garden itself was built in 1606, but it was subject to reconstruction and redevelopment in 1690.
In this garden you can observe a large number of beautiful fountains, surrounded by small flower beds in a circle. In the garden there are wide walking paths, along the borders of which dwarf trees stretch.
Of course, sculptures can also be found in the garden, because it is a historical part of the city of Salzburg.
6. Garden Majorelle
The Majorelle Garden stretches almost fifty square meters, and it is located in Morocco. The garden is easy to distinguish from others due to the accumulation of vegetation with a bluish tint, and, by the way, the garden even has an owner - the famous Yves Saint Laurent.
This garden is one of the top fifty most beautiful gardens in the world and is a very popular place for visiting tourists.
In this garden, tourists can even visit the Art Museum, which houses paintings by the creator of the Majorelle Garden.
5. Royal Botanic Gardens of Melbourne
Judging by the name, you have already guessed the location of this garden. Yes, in the very center of Melbourne. Its area is four hundred and four thousand six hundred eighty-six square meters. It managed to accommodate a children's park, an observatory, and an open herbarium. Also, mass events are often held in the garden, for example, group yoga classes in the mornings or reading interesting lectures, and in the evenings there are live music concerts.
The place is very popular with tourists.
4. Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden
This is a famous and popular garden located in South Africa. The garden is not as ancient as its predecessors on the list; it was created in 1913. However, it is no less popular and beautiful place on earth, both for tourists and for residents of the country. During the years of creation, Kirstenbosch was the first botanical garden of its kind, so this is a plus in the treasury of its uniqueness.
In the garden, a popular and visited place is the territory on which plants with unusual colors are grown: dark green and brown. Tourists from all over the world come to see the vegetation in this part of the garden.
3. Desert Botanical Garden
What is your desert associated with? With orange, a huge area of sand, dry spines and tumbleweed? Come to Phoenix, and the deserts will no longer be associated with lifelessness and dryness.
After all, the botanical garden has collected more than twenty thousand samples of cacti and various plants that prefer the sandy soil of deserts.
2. Gardens of the Palace of Versailles
This garden is included in the list of some of the most beautiful gardens in Europe. He stretched out over eight square kilometers, but managed to arrange the palace of Louis XIV, by whose order the garden was built. The fact is that the ruler liked to walk on green and fresh lawns, now millions of annual tourists who come just to walk between snow-white fountains and lush plants like to do it.
The garden is really very beautiful, it is not in vain that it is ranked among the most beautiful places in France. There you will see tangled paths, and views of the smooth surface of the lake and flowers of the most incredible colors.
1. Claude Monet's Garden
Another garden in France, which is included in the list of the most beautiful gardens in the country. The garden, as you understood from the name, belonged to Claude Monet, a French painter.
And the garden itself looks like a picture or a work of art. Plants scattered randomly on the canvas, however, create incredible harmony and relevance. The painter himself grew most of the flowers in the garden, gradually and slowly turning it into a future work of art.
This place is a must for a tourist, because there is probably no place to find a more beautiful garden.