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Paris - Le Parc de Bagatelle, en plein cœur du Bois de Boulogne, fait partie du Jardin Botanique de Paris. Il est reconnu comme étant un des plus prestigieux de la capitale. On y découvre des grottes, des étendues fleuries, des beaux bâtiments et des arbres gigantesques….Follement romantique et charmant, Bagatelle a l’avantage de ne pas être surpeuplé, et ce, même en plein été. Si on ne risque pas de croiser notre boss lors de notre promenade ou de notre pique-nique, en revanche, il y a de fortes chances que l’on rencontre des paons ! Le Parc de Bagatelle est né en 1777 à la suite d’un pari entre Marie-Antoinette et son beau-frère le Comte D’Artois (frère de Louis XVI et futur roi Charles X).

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The International Roses & Gardening Organization Committee (Mainichi Newspapers/NHK/Sports Nippon Newspapers) has been holding the “International Roses & Gardening Show” every year since 1999.

Paris - Le groupement LOV Hotel Collection, appartenant à l'homme d'affaires Stéphane Courbit et à Alain Ducasse entreprise, a été retenu par l'établissement public du château de Versailles pour transformer en hôtel un ensemble de trois bâtiments longeant le Parterre de l'Orangerie, selon un communiqué publié lundi. L'appel d'offres, clos en septembre, avait reçu une vingtaine de candidatures françaises et étrangères.

Peacocks and pomegranates have long been used as motifs on embroidery in a wide range of cultures. Running from January until July 2016, the ‘Peacocks & Pomegranates’ exhibition will feature pieces from the Royal School of Needlework’s Textile Collection. It will include objects from China and India, as well as from Western Europe, which either take these icons as their central motif or feature them prominently.

Historic, poetic, iconic; a refuge dedicated to beauty. Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson fell in love with Sissinghurst Castle and created a world renowned garden. Vita Sackville-West, the poet and writer, began transforming Sissinghurst Castle in the 1930s with her diplomat and author husband, Harold Nicolson.

Il Labirinto della Masone aprirà al pubblico il 29 maggio. Progettato da Franco Maria Ricci, copre 7 ettari di terreno ed è stato realizzato interamente con piante di bambù di specie diverse. Il complesso del labirinto ospita spazi culturali per più di 5000 metri quadrati, destinati alla collezione d’arte di Franco Maria Ricci (circa 500 opere dal Cinquecento al Novecento).

Cannes - Marina, la petite-fille de Pablo Picasso, a le "projet" de vendre "La Californie", somptueuse villa-atelier de son grand-père à Cannes, dans le sud-est de la France, et aurait déjà reçu une offre d'achat de 150 millions d'euros, selon la presse. 

Villa Erba ed oltre 20 tra i più bei giardini visitabili d'Italia aspettano tutti i bambini a Pasquetta per una speciale iniziazione botanica!

Alexandre Dumas l'appelait son "paradis terrestre". Tout droit sorti de l'imagination de l'auteur des Trois Mousquetaires en 1844, le château, qui se trouve au Port-Marly dans les Yvelines, est classé monument historique.

The Camellia Park in Locarno was opened in March 2005 during the world congress of the International Camellia Society (ICS), which was held in the city that year. Almost a decade after its creation the Park has become an international attraction, both for its landscape value and its inestimable botanic collections.

By Royal Horticultural Society 

(Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid)

Charming archival illustrations of those and other favorites, from carnations to bell heathers, decorate Élisabeth de Feydeau’s From Marie Antoinette’s Garden, a detailed horticultural tour of the queen’s cherished retreat.

Who wouldn't want to step into Holly Golightly's shoes? If you've got $8 million, you can: The Upper East Side brownstone that moonlighted as her home in Breakfast at Tiffany's is for sale, and a quick peek inside explains why this home is such a star.

Il y a quelques dizaines d'années, Mrs. Merwin se présenta à la boutique du 34 boulevard Saint-Germain pour y présenter un pot pourri, dont la recette transmise par son arrière grand-mère daterait de l’ère élisabéthaine… Les fondateurs furent immédiatement séduits et ce pot pourri trouva naturellement sa place dans la boutique. diptyque le ré interprète aujourd’hui sous forme de bougie.

“Adesso è il momento di piantare le Rose per assistere ad una fioritura eccezionale durante la prossima estate”. (David Austin)

Jardim Botânico da Universidade de Coimbra

Derbyshire. Join us this October as Luminaire returns to Chatsworth. The house will be lit with subdued lighting and candles for these special evenings. A selection of drawings from the Masque of Oberon, The Fairy Prince, illustrated by Inigo Jones (1611) and other colourful drawings by Inigo Jones will be displayed in the Great Chamber. Not seen in over 40 years, these drawings along with music will bring the Baroque house to life. In the garden an illuminated trail leads the way, inspired by the drawings of Inigo Jones. Moments from the masque will feature along the trail, with lighting, projections and music, ending in the Stables Courtyard. 

A MacArthur grant is not quite the same as a Nobel prize in literature. And for the cultured northern Brooklynite, having as a neighbor a prominent left-leaning documentary filmmaker does not perhaps yield quite the same cachet as having a renowned exiled Soviet writer down the street. But certainly, a documentarian with a McArthur under his belt, like Errol Morris, is a better replacement for Joseph Brodsky than, say, a management consultant. And thus, artistically-inclined Brooklyn Heights residents living in the vicinity of 22 Pierrepont Street can rejoice. Mr. Morris and his wife, art historian Julia Sheehan, have just bought Brodsky’s former home at that address for $1.9 million, according to city records. (Brodsky passed away in 1996.)

Freshly Picked Bunch of Pastel Roses by David Austin

"The rose has always been the best loved of all garden flowers and with the English Rose our aim has been, quite simply, to breed a more beautiful rose on a more beautiful shrub".

Saint-Petersburg - Although the phenomenon known as the "White Nights" is not unique to St Petersburg, in no other northern city have they received such poetic and literary acclaim. What could be more romantic than a walk along the banks of the city's rivers and canals in almost broad daylight, no matter what the time of day? No other major European city can rival this experience nor the atmosphere on the streets of St. Petersburg during the summer months.

Marrakech. In the peaceful Palmeraie oasis beneath the Atlas Mountains and Djebilet Hills, Palais Namaskar is immersed in a vast and majestic panorama.

2014 sees the 160th anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s birth. One of L’Hotel’s most famous residents, Wilde both lived and died here at the turn of the 19th century. To mark his anniversary, guests have the opportunity to trace Wilde’s footsteps through Paris with a guided tour, followed by lunch at the Michelin starred Le Restaurant.

Un aller simple pour Saint-Pétersbourg… Voilà ce qu’on vous propose aujourd’hui avec la découverte de l’Eglise Saint-Serge, en plein coeur du 19ème arrondissement de Paris.

Vienna - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry doesn’t often spend five days in a row in any one place – including his own office and his house. But sometimes brinkmanship in world affairs demands it, so it was with a certain gritty, dead-level calm that Secretary Kerry turned on a dime and stayed in Vienna to drill down with his counterpart in the nuclear power negotiations.

One of the world’s most popular destinations, Paris, offers a multitude of things to do and places to see. Like most major travel destinations, there can never be enough time to see it all. From late afternoon. Your evening will begin at The Bar La Vue atop the Hyatt Regency Hotel in the Porte Maillot district.

Franschhoek - Breathtaking scenery, warm hospitality, fine wines, distinctive artists, and a small village atmosphere. These are the hallmarks of the picturesque Franschhoek Wine Valley, situated in the heart of the Cape Winelands. Taking these unique qualities into account visitors will be further enlightened to all that this area has to offer with a leisurely journey along the recently launched Franschhoek Wine Valley Food & Wine Route. This exciting initiative builds on Franschhoek’s reputation as the Gourmet Capital of South Africa, taking the concept of a food and wine experience to an entirely new level. Offering visitors an array of innovative food, wine and lifestyle experiences is truly unique to the Cape Winelands. 

Freud lived and worked in a large, central apartment at Berggasse 19 for 47 years, producing many of his most influential works there. By 1933, the Nazis had come to power; though Freud shrugged off increasingly virulent anti-Semitism, he eventually decided to leave for London just after the Anschluss. But his house remains, and was turned into the Sigmund Freud Museum in 1971, with a permanent exhibition devoted to the life and work of the founder of psychoanalysis. In addition to a thought-provoking set of multimedia installations, the museum also houses Freud’s original waiting room where his patients once sat. University of Vienna Freud entered the University of Vienna at age 17 and went on to become a docent there, delivering small weekly lectures on his theories between 1886 to 1919. Today, a black marble bust of Freud can be found in the central courtyard of the University’s main campus, along with works depicting other leading lights of Vienna’s once-thriving science scene.

Turquoise waters, sandy beaches, and tropical settings fill travelers' daydreams. Whatever your fancy, there's something about being completely surrounded by water that puts you at ease and sets you loose from the daily grind. Here are 10 ways to plot your next escape.

Le Jardin Majorelle à Marrakech est l’un des endroits les plus visités du Maroc. Il a fallu quarante ans au peintre français Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) pour créer, avec passion, ce lieu enchanteur, aujourd’hui au cœur de la Ville Rouge.

Des astronomes belges ont dessiné l'éclair emblématique de David Bowie pour relier une constellation de sept astres près de Mars. Il s'agit d'une "frontière tracée artificiellement entre les étoiles", destinée à se repérer sur la carte du ciel. David Bowie a trouvé sa place parmi les étoiles. Une semaine jour pour jour après sa mort, l'observatoire belge MIRA a tracé l'éclair emblématique du chanteur. Dessiné sur son visage dans l'un des clichés les plus célèbres de David Bowie, l'éclair a fait la couverture de l'album « Aladdin Sane », sorti en 1973.

(Photo MIRA)

Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio (Comet, 1506) – Source

Image from J.J. Grandville’s Un Autre Monde (1844) – Source.

Piri Reis was a 16th century Ottoman Admiral famous for his maps and charts collected in his Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Navigation), a book which contains detailed information on navigation as well as extremely accurate charts describing the important ports and cities of the Mediterranean Sea.

"Islands are not only real places but projections of human ideas for a better world and the social wish to cast out undesirable subjects and objects at the same time. So it is not surprising that the image of remote islands is located somewhere between utopian paradise and jailhouse. My book is about the huge gap between longing and reality".

Judith Schalansky 

The New York Botanical Garden’s Exhibition, will celebrate Great American Gardens in the early 20th Century and the extraordinary Women Who Designed them. 

Le Voyage - Rendez-Vous 

Prolonger les vacances et l'ailleurs le temps d'un grand week-end: ça se passe à Tanger, destination on ne peut plus en vogue, transporté pour l'occasion à la Gaité Lyrique parisienne, des merveilless de sa cinémathèque (anciennes affiches de films), aux saveurs de son couscous (brunch et ateliers cuisine) en passant pas sa scène musicale (hip.hop, gnawas, transe traditionelle...), son cinéma contemporain, son pop-up souk d'artisans, ses bruits (installations sonores), ses inspirations romanesques...

A Weary Man's Utopia He called it "Utopia”, a Greek word which means "there is no such place." (Quevedo).