English garden

Connected Sites: 34

The term "English garden" or "English park" is used in Continental Europe for a large-scale landscape garden with its origins in the English landscape gardens of the 18th century.

Connected Sites

  • Studley Royal Park
    Studley Royal Park
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.10
    131
    8
  • Royal Palace at Caserta
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.19
    198
    4
    Caserta English garden
  • Botanical Garden, Padua
    Inscribed: 1997
    2.77
    252
    9
  • St. Petersburg
    Inscribed: 1990
    4.19
    268
    9
    Pavlovsk Palace "Pavlovsk is well worth visiting both for the treasures in the elegant palace and for the charming, rambling park, which is one of the largest and finest English-style landscape gardens outside the UK. " (From www.saint-petersburg.com/pavlovsk/index.asp ) AND Peterhof "Catherine the Great oversaw the creation of the first landscape garden at Peterhof, the English Park, which was designed jointly by English landscaper James Meders and the great Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi. The park was once the setting for Quarenghi's English Palace, considered one of the finest works of Russian classicism, which was later used as a guesthouse for foreign visitors, and then destroyed by artillery fire in the Second World War. "
    See www.saint-petersburg.com
  • Nesvizh
    Nesvizh
    Belarus
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.51
    94
    6
  • City of Bath
    City of Bath
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.57
    410
    13
    Prior Park and Holburne Gardens
  • Telc
    Telc
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1992
    3.11
    182
    13
    Castle park
  • Banska Stiavnica
    Inscribed: 1993
    2.92
    153
    10
    Park of the castle of Sv?t? Anton
  • Residence of Bukovinian & Dalmatian Metropolitans
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.74
    47
    4
    the park, landscaped in 19th century English style with asymmetrical tree-planting and glades (AB ev)
  • Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.02
    192
    11
    Agliè garden
  • Karlskrona
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.25
    113
    6
    At Skarva
  • Litomysl Castle
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.75
    142
    10
    Castle garden
  • Champagne
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.16
    221
    9
    Park of the Hôtel-Château des Crayères on the colline Saint-Nicaise. (Nomination file, p. 100) - The parks and gardens of the Avenue de Champagne are for the most part inspired by the English landscaped garden, e.g. gardens of the Hôtel Gallice and the Château Perrier. (Nomination file, p. 128, 134)
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • Blenheim Palace
    Blenheim Palace
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.06
    232
    12
    Its park was created by the famous landscape gardener 'Capability' Brown
  • Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.93
    227
    11
    "Overall, the landscaping of Commonwealth cemeteries follows the English garden tradition" (AB ev)
  • Bordeaux
    Bordeaux
    France
    Inscribed: 2007
    3.27
    260
    7
    Jardin Public: "Under Napoleon III the gardens were transformed into a traditional English formal garden, and extended. This is the present form of the gardens."
    See www.bordeaux-tourisme.com
  • Versailles
    Inscribed: 1979
    3.98
    522
    12
    The attempt to convert Le Nôtre’s masterpiece into an English-style garden failed to achieve its desired goal. Owing largely to the topology of the land, the English esthetic was abandoned and the gardens replanted in the French style. (wiki)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Singapore Botanic Gardens
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.10
    274
    12
    SGB heritage zone
  • Prague
    Prague
    Czechia
    Inscribed: 1992
    4.28
    586
    16
    Pruhonice Park
  • Potsdam
    Potsdam
    Germany
    Inscribed: 1990
    3.52
    372
    10
    New Garden
  • Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.91
    325
    6
    extensive gardens in the French, Italian and English styles (AB ev)
  • Nice
    Nice
    France
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.78
    354
    5
    In the park of the Château de Valrose and the park of the Villa Kotschoubey. (Nomination file, p. 143-144, 157)
  • Muskauer Park
    Muskauer Park
    Germany, Poland
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.62
    151
    8
  • Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
    Inscribed: 1996
    2.82
    168
    10
    Lednice park, plus some of the smaller parks, the so-called Englische Anlagen
  • Kew Gardens
    Kew Gardens
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2003
    3.24
    337
    18
    "The landscape gardens and the edifices created by celebrated artists such as Charles Bridgeman, William Kent, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown and William Chambers reflect the beginning of movements which were to have international influence."
  • Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2021
    3.28
    443
    16
    Central Park in Mariánské Lázně
  • Graz
    Graz
    Austria
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.97
    256
    10
    Schloss Eggenberg
  • Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.76
    161
    10
  • Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.56
    183
    10
  • Ferrara
    Ferrara
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.19
    234
    10
    Massari Park: the name of the park comes from the Massari counts who purchased the palace that bears their name and, later, transformed the pre-existing garden into an English park.
    See it.wikipedia.org
  • Drottningholm
    Inscribed: 1991
    2.84
    239
    11
    Gustav III's English Garden
  • Australian Convict Sites
    Inscribed: 2010
    2.66
    181
    13
    Old Government House and Domain, Parramatta "The park includes ..... landscaped gardens in late 18th century English style"
  • Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.56
    169
    6
    "The history of the nominated property began in 1800, when Prince Christian of Hesse-Darmstadt created an English landscape garden open to the public on the hill above the city of Darmstadt, from which views of the city could be enjoyed." (AB Ev)
  • Schwerin Residence Ensemble
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.85
    116
    5
    Burggarten: "The Burggarten on the Castle Island takes up the design principles of English landscape gardens" (see link)
    See www.landtag-mv.de