Spanish gardens

Spanish gardens

Spain has a long tradition of making gardens. Significant gardens were made by:

* the Romans
* the Islamic rulers of Southern Spain (for example, the Alhambra, the Palmeral of Elche)
* owners of castles in the medieval period
* Egyptian alchemists
* Christian kings during the Renaissance and Baroque periods (for example, the La Granja)
* landowning and business families during the Romantic and Modern periods (for example, the Park Guell)

In twenty-first century Spain, gardens are designed by horticulturalists, architects and landscape architecture professions.

ee also

*History of gardening

References


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