Károlyi Castle Park

The 100-acre historical garden that surrounds the Károlyi-stately home of Fehérvárcsurgó in Hungary is situated in the County of Fejér, 80 km from Budapest, 200 km from Vienna. It has been in the ownership of the family since the mid 1830’s until its nationalization in 1945 by communist authorities. The family was then forced to…

Merian Gärten

The Merian Gärten (Merian Gardens) are a magical place of beauty. The extensive botanical garden on the outskirts of Basel enchants visitors with an incredible variety of plants and a profuse display of blossoms. The former country residence of Christoph Merian, a prosperous 19th-century agronomist and philanthropist, includes a landscape garden, valuable collections of ornamental…

Gardens of the World – Centre of International Garden and Landscape Design

Gardens of the World offers visitors a memorable and varied experience of international garden design from different ages and regions. Traditions going back thousands of years encounter contemporary landscape design from five continents here. Whether Oriental, Asian, Australian, South American, African or European, the garden is a place of peace, beauty and happiness in all…

Gesamtkunstwerk Branitz Park and Palace

Located near Cottbus, Branitz Park and Palace is the masterpiece and late creation of the eccentric garden designer Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871). Gently curved earth formations, elegantly shaped lakes and stretches of water and perfectly designed compositions of trees reveal Branitz today to be the pinnacle of landscape gardening development, rightly giving it the…