Category: Travel

  • Athens’ National Garden: The Queen, the Botanists and the Ancient Water

    Athens’ National Garden: The Queen, the Botanists and the Ancient Water

    Behind the Greek Parliament, a nineteenth-century royal garden tells an unexpectedly rich story about landscape architecture, botanical ambition and the making of modern Athens. The avenue of towering palms at the entrance to Athens’ National Garden is among the most distinctive pieces of landscape design in the Greek capital. Their remarkably straight trunks rise above…