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  • Name: Villa di Castello (Gardens of Villa di Castello)

  • Location: Castello, near Florence, Italy

  • Date: N/A

  • Architect/Designer: N/A

  • Patron: Cosimo I de' Medici


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  • Name: Boboli Gardens (Gardens of Pitti Palace)

  • Location: Florence, Italy

  • Date: N/A

  • Architect/Designer: Giorgio Vasari, and Bernardo Buontalenti

  • Patron: Eleonora di Toledo (wife of Cosimo I de' Medici); Medici family


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  • Name: Villa Lante

  • Location: Bagnaia, Italy

  • Date: 1564–1580s

  • Architect/Designer: Jacopo Barozzi

  • Patron: Cardinal Gianfrancesco


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  • Name: Villa d'Este

  • Location: Tivoli, Italy

  • Date: 1563–1572

  • Architect/Designer: Pirro Ligorio

  • Patron: Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este


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  • Name: Gardens of Castello Orsini at Bomarzo (Sacro Bosco)

  • Location: Bomarzo, Italy (about 90 km north of Rome)

  • Date: 1552–1580s

  • Architect/Designer: N/A

  • Patron: Francesco Orsini


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  • Name: Château de Gaillon and Gardens

  • Location: Gaillon, Normandy, France

  • Date: 1576-79

  • Architect/Designer: N/A

  • Patron: N/A


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  • Name: Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

  • Location: Maincy, France

  • Date: 1658-1661

  • Architect/Designer: André Le Nôtre (garden designer); Louis Le Vau (architect)

  • Patron: Nicolas Fouquet


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  • Name: Château de Versailles

  • Location: Versailles, France

  • Date: 1661–1668

  • Architect/Designer: André Le Nôtre; Louis Le Vau

  • Patron: King Louis XIV


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  • Name: Barchetto Garden (Gardens of Villa Farnese)

  • Location: Caprarola, Italy

  • Date: 1584–1620

  • Architect/Designer: Giacomo Vignola; Giacomo Duca; Girolamo Rainaldi

  • Patron: Cardinal Farnese


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  • Name: Royal Palace of Caserta (River Road)

  • Location: Caserta, Italy

  • Date: 1753–1773

  • Architect/Designer: Luigi Vanvitelli

  • Patron: King Charles VII of Naples


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  • Name: Blenheim Palace and Gardens

  • Location: Woodstock, England

  • Date: 1705–1719

  • Architect/Designer: Sir John Vanbrugh

  • Patron: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough


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  • Name: Castle Howard and Gardens

  • Location: Yorkshire, England

  • Date: 1699-1811

  • Architect/Designer: Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor

  • Patron: Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle


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  • Name: Stowe House and Gardens

  • Location: Stowe, England

  • Date: 1677-1779

  • Architect/Designer: Charles Bridgeman (initial gardens); Sir John Vanbrugh (early architecture); William Kent (Elysian Fields)

  • Patron: Richard Temple