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One of the finest and best-preserved Gold Coast mansions open to visitors is the stunningly beautiful Westbury House at Old Westbury Gardens.

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' We may not have been the greatest creators in Europe, but we were brilliant editors of all the influences, bringing the functional and the beautiful back from Italy to our gardens and interiors, adding our own practical dynamic to French clothes.

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The trail begins in the beautiful Parque Laje, neighbouring the Botanical Gardens, and continues through the jungle for two hours.

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The beautiful 6.5-acre site, which includes medieval courtyards, a chapel, cloister and gardens, lies just behind an unassuming gate just a few metres from Smithfield Market in the heart of the hectic City of London.

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The amazing spectacle is one of the largest in a growing number of "plant walls" or " vertical gardens" that are taking root across the world, as architects search for environmentally friendly ways to create beautiful buildings.

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Spanish architects from Catalonia armed with the curvaceous ideas of modernisme rubbed shoulders with influential new US transplants enamoured by the City Beautiful Movement, a classical revival movement born in North America that emphasised monumental classical buildings interspersed with salubrious parks and gardens.

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