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Aranjuez is located in the south of the Community of Madrid in a fertile valley watered by two rivers, Tagus and Jarama rivers that, historically, have made of this territory a particularly fertile area in contrast to La Mancha plain that surrounds us.
The abundance of fauna and flora of this valley attracted the attention of nobles and kings already in the 12th Century. Then, they appreciated the value of Aranjuez as a recreation and hunting area. Later, in the 16th Century, Philip II decided to turn an ancient house-palace, which originally belonged to the Order of Santiago, into a larger Royal Palace that, together with other works of engineering, architecture and some hydraulic works are the origin of what we know today as Aranjuez Cultural Landscape.
<h3>The Island Garden</h3>
The Island Garden was originally designed in the XVI Century around the Royal Palace of Aranjuez. Nowadays, it is formed by small Gardens such as the Garden of the King, the Garden of the Queen, the Garden of the Parterre and the Island Garden itself. This set of gardens takes this name because, the main one is surrounded, on one side, by Tagus River and, on the other side, by an artificial construction called “La Ría”, which makes the garden an authentic island.King Philip II, Renaissance monarch, had travelled along Europe since very early age and, during his journeys, he had showed a great interest in nature.
His broad knowledge, gained by the experience of the long trips he made within his domains, explains the different styles that cohabit in the Island Garden of Aranjuez: the original garden, inspired in the vegetable gardens and orchards of Hispano-Muslim tradition with a productive purpose, including the traditional irrigation system; the Flemish aesthetic, well known by the monarch due to his travels around the Netherlands; and the Italian contribution from the architects Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera, who would plan its Renaissance layout (including several fountains with Mythological sculptures) also giving it a scientific destiny according to the humanistic ideas of the time. Therefore, this garden was then also devoted to botanical experimentation and research.
<h3>Variety of species from different origins</h3>
Phillip II imagined a garden composed of a variety of species from different origins: native vegetation and exotic healing species from the New World. All of them were intended for medicinal use, creation of perfumes and as a nursery to supply other Royal Sites. Aranjuez became a place of acclimatization for many American species that needed certain climatic conditions that this place could offer, such as mild temperatures and environmental humidity. There came to be planted over 200,000 trees in that time.
This idea also considered the desire to turn the gardens into small zoos; the intention was to recreate the Universe on a small scale. Wild boars, deers, bulls, horses, calves, cows, but also camels, ostriches, birds and fishes cohabited in Aranjuez by that time.
<h3>Prince’s Garden</h3>
On the other hand, the Prince’s Garden is the other most important historical garden in Aranjuez. This is the largest fenced garden in Europe and consists of pre-existing elements, orchards and gardens. In fact, it is also called “the garden of gardens”.
It is a landscape project directed by Charles III’s architect and gardener, Juan de Villanueva and Pablo Boutelou, where all these elements are assembled, creating an area of intervened nature according to the criteria of disordered and spontaneous beauty and botanical experimentation, quite typical of the Enlightenment Period. Not in vain, this garden has more than 190 different tree species, coming to be listed as a Botanical garden. In fact, already in the time of Felipe II, these lands were used as a center of botanical research and experimentation of acclimatization of species from the Indies. So, this botanical tradition was continued in the times of Charles III and Charles IV.
<h3>Other gardens</h3>
Nowadays, we can find several distinctive gardens such as the Royal Pavilion and the Dock, the Spanish Garden, the Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Gardens, clearly influenced by the English style gardening.
The sixth and seventh gardens are the most well know ones in the Prince’s Garden as they hold the Chinescos Pond, full of fish and birds, swans and ducks and the Asian and American Islands, irregular design gardens were we can find the most emblematic and exotic centenary trees.
The Eighth Garden is where La Casa del Labrador was built as a Day Residence for resting after the long and tiring hunting days that the Royalty enjoyed around theses domains during the Reign of Charles IV.
Finally, the ninth garden, also called Miraflores Park, is placed quite far away from the historic center of the city of Aranjuez. Queen Isabella II devoted this area to her Royal Stud and there used to be free horses in this place until 1980, approximately.

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Park of Montserrate

Lloret de Mar Town Council

Aranjuez Real Sitio y Villa

Aranjuez Cultural Landscape Foundation

Ayuntamiento de Orihuela

Junta de Castill y Leon

Ayuntamiento de Bejar

Consell de Mallorca

Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów

Villa Bardini

Parc Samà

Storico Giardino Garzoni Collodi

Royal Palace of Gödöllő

José do Canto Botanical Garden

Zugdidi Botanical Garden

Van Buuren Museum & Garden

Giardino di Boboli

Villae Tivoli

Museo Storico e il Parco del Castello di Miramare

Hungarian garden heritage foundation

Mainau

Gardens of the Royal Castle in Warsaw

Herrenhauser Gardens

Reggia di Caserta

Direzione regionale musei della Toscana

Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife

Municipal Park of Naoussa

Natural Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation Georgia

National Garden

Xunta de Galicia

Galicia

Sofievka

National Museum in Warsaw

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Park of Pena

Jardins do Palácio Nacional Queluz

Paisaje Cultural de Aranjuez

Parc Samà, Cambrils (Spain)

Finca Raixa

Alhambra and Generalife Gardens

Santa Clotilde Gardens

Serralves Park, Porto (Portugal)

Serralves Park

Batumi Botanical Garden

National Botanical Garden of Georgia

Tsinandali Alexander Chavchavadze Museum and Garden

Herrenhausen Gardens

Historical Museum & Park of Miramare Castle

Reggia Di Caserta

Villa d’Este

Boboli Gardens 

Historic Garzoni Garden

Gardens of the Royal Castle in Warsaw, (Poland)

Gardens Of The Royal Castle In Warsaw

Mainau Island

Van Buuren Gardens

Sofievka Park, Uman (Ukraine)

Sofievka Park

Municipal Park of Naoussa - Lake

Municipal Park of Naoussa - Flower beds

Municipal Park of Naoussa - Park from above

Municipal Park of Naoussa - Spring

Municipal Park of Naoussa Balcony

Municipal Park of Naoussa - Pebble pave

Municipal Park of Naoussa - Statue heroes

Municipal Park of Naoussa - Natural stone faucet

Municipal Park of Naoussa - Winter

Municipal Park of Naoussa - Main entrance

Municipal Park of Naoussa Folklore boules dancing

Municipal Park of Naoussa - Historic busts

Municipal Park of Naoussa - General city view and park

National Gardens of Athens

Esterházy Palace

Kamieniec Palace

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Palace garden in Nieborów, aerial view of the palace and the forecourt, Sylwester Cichal,

Palace garden in Nieborów, aerial view of the linden alley and the regular garden, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, boxwood mazes, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, Monika Antczak

Palace garden in Nieborów, aerial view of the linden alley, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, the linden alley, Dariusz Piwowarski

Hornbeam espalier in the garden in Nieborów, Monika Bajkowska

Palace and garden complex in Nieborów, Dariusz Bógdał

Palace garden in Nieborów, view of the palace from the linden alley, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, ornamental parterres, Sylwester Cichal

Palace garden in Nieborów, ornamental parterres and boxwood mazes, Sylwester Cichal

Old orangery in Nieborów, aerial view, Dariusz Bógdał

Old orangery in Nieborów, Dariusz Piwowarski

Garden cabinets in the regular garden in Nieborów, Katarzyna Piotrowska

Kitchen garden in Nieborów, Katarzyna Piotrowska

Vineyard in the kitchen garden in Nieborów, Agnieszka Chmielewska

Linden alley in Nieborów, Monika Antczak

Garden cabinet with the eagle column, garden in Nieborów, Dariusz Piwowarski

Garden canal in Nieborów, Monika Antczak

Alley by the canal in Nieborów, Monika Antczak,

Canal in the garden in Nieborów, Monika Bajkowsk

Plane trees in the palace garden in Nieborów, Xenia Modrzejewska-Mrozowska

Old orchard in Nieborów, Katarzyna Żak-Zatorska

Orchard in winter, Nieborów, Sylwester Borusiak vel Boruta

Exhibition: conservation works in the Nieborów palace garden, Sylwester Cichal

Nieborów palace garden

Palace Garden in Nieborów

Burgrave’s House in Arkadia, Monika Antczak

 Temple of Diana in Arkadia, view across the pond, Włodzimierz Pietrzyk

Greek Arc in Arkadia, Sylwia Salamądra

Gothic House in Arkadia, Dariusz Piwowarski

Sentimental garden in Arkadia, aerial view, Dariusz Bógdał

Sphinx sculpture by the Temple of Diana in Arkadia, Włodzimierz Pietrzyk

Sentimental Park in Arcadia

High Priest’s Shrine in Arkadia, Xenia Modrzejewska-Mrozowska

Gothic House and the Sybil’s Grotto in Arkadia, Dariusz Piwowarski

Temple of Diana in Arkadia, aerial view, Dariusz Bógdał

Aqueduct in Arkadia, Monika Antczak

Greek Arc in Arkadia, Dariusz Piwowarski

Tomb on Poplar Island in Arkadia, Sylwester Cichal

Pond in Arkadia, Xenia Modrzejewska-Mrozowska

Pond with an island in Arkadia, Dariusz Piwowarski

Sheep in Arkadia, Monika Antczak

Sentimental Park in Arkadia

Soutomaior Castle

Alameda Park

Pazo de Lourizán

Pazo de Mariñán

Pazo de Oca

Pazo de Rubianes

Pazo de Santa Cruz de Rivadulla

Manoir de Santa Cruz de Rivadulla

Pazo Quinteiro da Cruz 

Pazo Quiñones de León

LABPACT-SERP / Universitat de Barcelona

Eduard Petzold European Centre for Garden Art

AJH Associaçao Portuguesa dos Jardins Históricos

Cracow University of Technology Landscape Architecture Institute

Universidad de Girona Campus Patrimoni Cultural i Natural Parc Científic i Tecnològic 

University of Lisboa

ACRE (Spanish Association of Conservators and Restorers of Cultural Heritage)

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Sarny Castle, Ścinawka Górna (Poland)

Sarny Castle

van Buuren Museum & Gardens

Giardino della Villa medicea di Castello

El Bosque de Béjar

Giardino Bardini

Park of the Károlyi Mansion and Arboretum of Fehérvárcsurgó

Gödöllő Royal Palace Park

El Palmeral  de San Antón

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