There is also a Chianti of gardens, a Chianti that hides varying extensions behind the walls of its castles, villas and abbeys where they can apply an art which has always been popular in Italy, namely landscape gardening, Italian gardens or romantic parks. In Italian gardens, rational thinking dominates nature giving it a shape and exact geometric patterns, at times they are also full of complex arrangements. Low box hedges outline labyrinthine geometric forms in the search for aesthetic gratification but maybe also in a desire for the mysterious. Then there are romantic parks which forget the ‘cold, orderly’ geometric forms in favor of a spontaneous nature, if only on the surface, reproduced to scale inside a private garden.
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Romanesque Style Churches, Castles in Chianti

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