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...Walking straight ahead from the French gardens, you’ll pass a large fountain with what looks like a big artichoke at the top (Fuente de Alcachofa), before reaching the boating lake....
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...A fountain plays at their centre, while the women picnic in the foreground....
...But this is no Wonka-style chocolate funfair — the emphasis here is on Swiss innovation and precision (although there is a 9m chocolate fountain, with a wide rim at the bottom to stop any wannabe Augustus...
...The lower gardens feature a Doric temple, obelisk and a pond with a fountain....
...Why The landscaped gardens include an arbour, a pavilion, fountains and a reflection pool....
...After several laps, I sink back into the waters of the central safe haven, making sure to stand beneath the fountain, its mouth beautifully distorted by centuries of mineral precipitation....
...Lamps cascade from trees, candles flicker in mid-air, abstract neon flowers sprout, the Temperate House is a fiery cathedral, LED lights skim the lake and multicoloured fountains illuminate the Palm House...
...It comes with a four-bedroom guest house, a workshop, landscaped gardens with fountains, a woodland park and a natural swimming pool....
...In the tiny hamlet adjoining the castle there are two small restaurants (Hirschen and the zur Linde) that are decent places for a quick drink or something more substantial, and a stone fountain for a water-bottle...
...My wife and five-year-old son would be there at the end of long stints in the gallery, and then, for six days, we would be throwing coins into fountains. We live in Folkestone....
...but inside boasts a similar maximalist decor, with hand-painted gold-embellished de Gournay wallpaper, twin baths, private cinema rooms, four-posters in some suites and a rooftop bar set around a marble fountain...
...There’s a floating restaurant on the lake, a wellness tent and free yoga and a 14-person sauna....
...At the Palace of Versailles, ornate fountains represented King Louis XIV’s mastery over nature....
...At the end of our first day in the saddle, by the lightly touristed shores of Lake Eğirdir, we eat in an actual restaurant and stay in an actual hotel. Thereafter we don’t....
...Entry tickets give access to features and fountains, but neither they nor the level of gardening are distinguished....
...Water is used as a mindfulness tool; imagining a tranquil lake can help us relax....
...Why The villa is built around a traditional Andalucían courtyard with colonnades, palm trees and a fountain....
...Many of these are floored in an extraordinary Labradorite-like marble from Madagascar that, writ large, resembles a frozen glacial lake, the tones feathering spectacularly from white to duck’s egg to near...
...Citrus trees heavy with fruit and blooming bougainvillea cascade along the walls, while a soundtrack of birdsong and water fountains plays in the background....
...Inside them stand grand palazzos, loggias, a Venetian-style clock tower and a fountain guarded by snarling Venetian lions in the square....
...When Christie’s offered the 3m-high bird-esque fountain L’Oiseau Amoureux in its 2020 selling exhibition of outdoor sculpture, it “sold in excess of $600,000 from its former home on the edge of Lake Geneva...
...I had pancakes for breakfast in the Conservatory, a mezzanine above the main staircase, with the delicate sounds of a fountain as a calming backdrop....
...A rich tapestry of purple and green planting around the central tiled fountain, it looked far more at home in Highgrove than it had in Chelsea’s marquee. The woodland garden had gnomes....
...The pool is less a pool than an artificial lake shaped like a giant, lopsided U. It is 2,130 sq m and must be well over 60m long; it was once, reputedly, the largest in the world....
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