The Gardens of Venice and the Veneto |
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| Author:
| Condie, Jenny |
| By (photographer):
| Ramsay, Alex |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7112-3404-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Quarto Publishing Group UK
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| Imprint: | White Lion Publishing |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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The Gardens of Venice and the Veneto draws together an amazing variety of spellbinding garden retreats, from monastery gardens quietly cultivated in the islands of the lagoon to magnificent villas on the Brenta Canal, and baroque masterpieces in the hills beyond. Highlights include an eerie Masonic garden complete with gothic chapel and cavernous grottoes, a pleasure garden made for his workers by a benevolent nineteenth-century industrialist, and a flower-filled delight by...
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The Gardens of Venice and the Veneto draws together an amazing variety of spellbinding garden retreats, from monastery gardens quietly cultivated in the islands of the lagoon to magnificent villas on the Brenta Canal, and baroque masterpieces in the hills beyond. Highlights include an eerie Masonic garden complete with gothic chapel and cavernous grottoes, a pleasure garden made for his workers by a benevolent nineteenth-century industrialist, and a flower-filled delight by the banks of the Grand Canal.