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and woodland. Pleasure gardens provided a cool and refreshing refuge from the summer heat. The Mediterranean gardens were also maintained in the winter season, with winter rain allowing for the upkeep of rose and almond trees in northern Italy. This made the gardens a welcome retreat throughout the
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Public pleasure gardens were opened in London from the later 17th century; many had previously been parts of large private gardens, so the garden layout already existed. Usually entrance required payment. English nobles were increasingly able to build undefended, hospitable homes equipped with
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The depiction of entertainment in nature has been documented as far back as 1500bc, with depictions of garden scenes with guests entertained by musicians and dancing girls. In
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The two meanings of the term, as the ornamental parts of a garden, and as a commercial place of entertainment, coexisted in English from at least the 17th century.
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on 7 May 1668: "And we abroad to Marrowbone, and there walked in the garden, the first time I ever was there, and a pretty place it is".
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The rise of the suburban, private garden in the 20th century coincided with and influenced the decline of the public pleasure garden.
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in 1858. Most modern gardens would have been called "pleasure gardens", especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Formal, extravagant pleasure gardens came to Roman Britain in the 1st century AD, such as can now be seen at
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was a playground for the Persian nobility, combining parklands, orchards and hunting grounds. In 321 BC the
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pleasure gardens displaying exotic fauna introduced from the Americas and Indies.
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was signed at Triparidisus in Syria, a vast pleasure grounds complex in Syria.
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The pleasure garden : an illustrated history of British gardening
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Dividing the spoils : the war for Alexander the Great's empire
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Garden that is open to the public for recreation and entertainment
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New openings in the 18th and 19th centuries in London included
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The London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century
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Pleasure gardens
The Pleasure Garden (disambiguation)
pleasure ground

Rotunda
Ranelagh Gardens
garden
recreation
entertainment
concert halls
bandstands
amusement rides
zoos
menageries

Paderborn
pleasure ground
flower gardens
shrub gardens
bosquets
kitchen garden
Ancient Rome
landscaped
Gardens of Sallust
Sallust
Roman Emperor
Tiberius
temple
Venus
monumental sculptures

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