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Is La Foce the greatest Italian garden? How this Tuscan estate became a timeless masterpiece – and how to get the look in your yard

For the best part of a year, I worked as a gardener at a private estate in Val d'Orcia, a region of Tuscany that feels much like the land that time forgot. South of Siena, Val d'Orcia is a ...
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Key Elements Every Italian-Inspired Backyard Garden Needs

The famous gardens of Renaissance-era Italy encouraged a full sensory experience, where visitors could appreciate all the sights, sounds, and scents of not just the garden, but the landscapes beyond ...
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Clio in the Italian garden : twenty-first-century studies in historical methods and theoretical perspectives / Mirka Beneš and Michael G. Lee, editors

Based on papers presented at the symposium entitled "Recent issues in Italian garden studies"; held on Oct. 19-20, 2007 and organized by the Garden and Landscape Studies Program at the Dumbarton Oaks.