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Prague - Gardens and Parks (Paperback)
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Prague - Gardens and Parks (Paperback)
Series: Prague
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The design of Prague's gardens and parks especially the green
spaces of its palaces, castles, and monastery complexes, both
private and public is inseparable from the millennium-long
efflorescence of this exquisite Czech metropolis. Lushly
illustrated with nearly one hundred and fifty original color
photographs and archival images, Prague: Parks and Gardens not only
shares the latest findings on these gardens' historical foundation
and stylistic transformations, but also takes us through the garden
gates into individual gardens and parks both Prague's most visited
and its undiscovered green gems. Meandering past flower-framed
baroque statues to renaissance loggias, romantic pavilions, elegant
stairways, and bubbling fountains, the book explores Prague's
gardens and parks by locality, offering novel insight into the
city's different sections that will delight all educated travelers
and lovers of Prague. For gardeners, descriptions of some
historical gardens also include explanations of their specific
spatial relations, connecting them to the larger story of European
urban garden design. Complemented with a glossary of terms and an
index of important figures and locations, this beautiful
celebration of Prague's remarkable living botanical art, both past
and present, sheds new light on the leafy corners of this adored
European capital.
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