garden Archives | World Heritage Sites

Blenheim Palace

A grand 18th-century palace in an eclectic style, surrounded by grounds designed by Capability Brown. Also the birthplace of Winston Churchill.

A 16th-century villa with a garden that epitomizes the Renaissance aesthetic in garden design.

A magnificent 16th-century royal palace, particularly important for its artwork.

An exhibition building and surrounding gardens representing the importance of the 19th-century’s international exhibition movement.

An extraordinary palm grove dating to the Arab period in Spain.

A magnificent and remarkably well-preserved 18th-century palace and grounds.

A summer retreat for China’s emperors, with extensive classical gardens, an artificial lake, and a collection of palace buildings.

Former home to the powerful Habsburg emperors: an opulent Baroque castle and its gardens.

Nine traditional Chinese gardens that artfully mirror the natural world in very limited spaces.

A magnificent 18th-century baroque palace and accompanying garden.

A huge English-style garden and the structures in it that illustrate the principles of Enlightenment ideals in landscape design.

A beautifully-landscaped Georgian garden and a well-preserved medieval monastic ruin.

Two castles and the extensive grounds, gardens and outbuildings around them form a harmonious man-made cultural landscape.

An extensive tropical garden that has evolved since its founding in the colonial period to become a world-class scientific institution.

A palace and three gardens, one of which represents the epitome of Baroque garden design.

An ensemble of stately palaces dating from the 18th and 19th centuries, along with their extensive gardens.

Elegant and grand 17th-century royal residence and park, seat of the French monarchy from Louis XIV to Louis XVI.