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Torre del Guinigi ed il quercus ilex

Torre del Guinigi ed il quercus ilex

Green architecture: The hanging Garden of Guinigi Tower

Lucca is a city where history can be felt at every turn. If it weren’t for the many shops, bars, cafés and restaurants that bring you back to reality, proof of a time in which there are no knights…

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Green architecture: Milan and “The Bosco Verticale”

Those that think that Milan is all grey smog, advertising billboards and nightlife have got it all wrong. For years now we’ve been seeing a trend reversal, a return to greenery, a need f…

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Urban parks: Chapultepec Park in Mexico City

It is one of the biggest urban parks in the world, spanning a good 647 hectares of greenery and containing almost 40,000 trees from over 100 different species. It is a charming, magical place wher…

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Urban parks: Central Park in New York

Greenery, greenery and more greenery. In fact, there is so much greenery that you will be hard pushed to believe that you are in one of the biggest cities in the world. Yet the thing that will str…

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Urban parks: Englischer Garten, Munich

The Englischer Garten in Munich, Bavaria is – as its name would suggest – an English garden, not to mention one of the biggest city parks in the world, spanning a good 373 hectares. The proje…

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Urban parks: Bois de Boulogne

When we talk about Paris, we think about the Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower and the masterpieces housed at the Louvre. When we talk about Paris, we think about romantic strolls along the Seine, a re…

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Cinderella’s Magical Hazel Tree

Once upon a time the plains of Europe were covered by dense forests. Oaks, poplars, ash trees, hazel trees and many more gave life to a vast expanse of green, interspersed here and there by small …