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Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte: the Great Canal and grotto
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NOTES: The architect was Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect was Andre le Notre, and Charles le Brun was responsible for the interiors.
Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte: the south front with parterres
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NOTES: The architect was Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect was Andre le Notre, and Charles le Brun was responsible for the interiors.
Downton Castle, Downton-on-the-Rock, Herefordshire
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NOTES: Built by Richard Payne Knight, virtuoso, archaeologist and anthropologist, c.1772-1778, this house is one of the earliest contrived castellated castles. Knight was assisted in the early stages of building by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard.
First Terrace, Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio
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NOTES: Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola designed the villa and the gardens while Tommaso Chiruchi of Siena was the specialist in hydraulics who engineered all the water features.
Plas Brondanw, Llanfrothen, Gwynedd: the garden
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NOTES: The gardens were designed by the owner, architect Clough Williams-Ellis, in three stages: the first one between 1908 and 1914, the second one between the two wars and the third one after 1951.
First Terrace and Fountain of the Moors, Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Lazio
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NOTES: Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola designed the villa and the gardens while Tommaso Chiruchi of Siena was the specialist in hydraulics who engineered all the water features.
