The parks and gardens most beautiful in the world collected on a map and ready to welcome you with their brand new green carpets: sounds good, right?
They are the lungs of the cities, true oases where to forget the madding crowd and enjoy nature during each and every season. Parks and gardens provide us moments of calm, bucolic walks, quiet corners where to read or even where to exercise outdoors.
The portal HouseFresh set out to discover which are the most beautiful parks and gardens in the world and for this he carried out a study using TripAdvisor data.
Gardens by the Bay (Singapore).
For it, tracked down the word “beautiful” (pretty in English) in the platform's reviews of public gardens around the world. Thus, taking data from December 2021, they compiled the most beautiful garden or park in each country and in each state of the United States taking into account those with the highest number of reviews with said mention.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDEN IN THE WORLD
Although the Italian Renaissance spread throughout Europe the concept of public garden, it would not be until XIX century when these places became popular in other countries of the world.
Today, our planet is home to incredible botanical gardens, lush parks and beautiful natural spaces of all shapes and sizes.
According to the study carried out by HouseFresh taking into account the reviews of tourists, the most beautiful public park in the world is Gardens by the Bay, in Singapore, which accumulates 12,385 mentions of the word "beautiful" on Tripadvisor.
In the United States, the first place goes to Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Garden In Las Vegas, with 5,706 mentions.
Another relevant fact from the study is that seven of the twenty most beautiful public parks in the world are in Europe, the most beautiful of them all being Luxembourg gardens, in France, with 6,818 mentions.
The most beautiful park in Spain is Maria Luisa (Seville).
The most beautiful parks and gardens in the world.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDEN IN THE WORLD IS IN SINGAPORE
Gardens by the Bay (Singapore) It is the most beautiful public garden in the world according to TripAdvisor users. Since its opening in 2011, it has attracted tourists from all over the world every year and has crowned Singapore as the quintessential tropical garden city.
This beautiful place 101 hectares bill the largest glass greenhouse in the world and with three gardens facing the sea. The largest of these, Bay South Garden, was designed by Grant Associates.
Some of its most impressive corners are the aerial walkway that runs through part of the place and a waterfall of orchids. Many of the tourist reviews highly recommend the light and sound show.
Gardens by the Bay at night.
THE TOP 10
The second most beautiful garden in the world, with 8,187 mentions, is the Majorelle Garden of Marrakesh , designed by the French artist Jacques Majorelle in 1923, and later acquired by the French designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé in 1980.
The Jardin Majorelle houses 300 plant species from five continents and in the center we can visit the Musée Berbere, with some 600 artifacts that show the rich history and culture of Morocco.
The third position is for the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris (6,818 mentions), the most beautiful in France and all of Europe. They were built in 1612 at the initiative of queen Marie de' Medici, they have an area of 25 hectares and are divided into two zones: French gardens and English gardens.
Majorelle Garden (Marrakesh).
In fourth place, with 5,708 mentions, is Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Garden (Las Vegas), an indoor garden where you can find all four seasons in one day.
Each season, the gardens' 120 horticulturists, engineers and designers put together displays made up of more than 10,000 flowers.
Fifth place brings us back to Singapore , where we find your Botanical Garden , one of the three gardens –and the only botanical one– included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage.
Founded in 1859, the Singapore Botanic Garden it is one of three gardens and the only tropical botanical garden on the UNESCO World Heritage List. More than 10,000 species of flora are distributed in its 82 hectares, in which the National Orchid Garden.
Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Garden.
In sixth place are the Butchart Gardens (Canada), that accumulate 5,022 mentions. In 1904 the Butcharts moved here and Jennie Butchart he wanted to create a beautiful place from the remains of her husband's industrial quarry. They have been designated a National Historic Site of Canada.
we travel to Australia to know the seventh position: Kings Park and Botanic Garden (4,451 mentions) combines Aboriginal and European history with contemporary culture and innovative design and exhibits. It is also the home of Western Australian Botanic Garden , which has more than 3000 species of the country's flora.
Eighth place remains in Australia, this time in Melbourne, and it's for the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (3,857 mentions). Founded in 1846, these gardens are spread over 38 hectares of majestic trees, lakes and pathways. Here in the National Herbarium of Victoria, is found the State Botanical Collection, which, with more than 1.5 million preserved plants, algae and fungi, is the largest herbarium collection in Oceania.
The Butchart Gardens (Victoria, Canada).
The ninth place brings us back to Europe, specifically to Copenhagen, where are the Tivoli Gardens, the third oldest operating amusement park in the world (it was opened in 1843) and the fifth most visited in Europe. It also houses beautiful gardens where you can spread out and enjoy the surroundings.
The top 10 is closed by Boston Public Garden , one of the parks that make up the Emerald Necklace, designed by the American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Built in 1837, it was the first public botanical garden in the United States and features a pond, various sculptures, and more than 600 varieties of trees and flowers.
Luxembourg Gardens (Paris).
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN EUROPE
The Luxembourg gardens are the most beautiful in Europe, followed in second position by the Tivoli Gardens (Denmark) and thirdly, for Keukenhof (Netherlands).
The fourth European place goes to the Munich English Garden (Germany) , followed by Kew Royal Botanic Gardens (London, United Kingdom), Princes Street Gardens (United Kingdom), Monte Palace Madeira (Portugal), Upper Barrakka Gardens (Malt), Bonant Garden (Wales, UK) and the National Botanic Garden of Ireland (Ireland).
Tivoli Gardens (Copenhagen).
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN THE UNITED STATES
The most beautiful public garden in the United States, Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Garden (Las Vegas, Nevada), is rated 53% higher than the Boston Public Garden, which ranks second.
Third place in the United States is Desert Botanical Garden (Phoenix, Arizona), followed in fourth position by Gaylord Opryland Resort Gardens (Nashville, Tennessee) and fifth, by Portland Japanese Garden (Oregon).
Completing the top 10 American: Dallas Arboretum & Botanical Gardens (Texas), International Rose Test Garden (Portland, Oregon), Parrot Mountain & Gardens (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee), Atlanta Botanical Garden (Georgian) and Missouri Botanical Garden (St.Louis, Missouri).
America's most beautiful parks and gardens.
THE WORLD FROM GARDEN TO GARDEN
Incredible enclaves spread across all continents also stand out on the map, such as Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden (South Africa), Christchurch Botanic Gardens (New Zealand), Yu Garden, Yuyuan (China), Hunt's Gardens (Barbados), Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden (Japan), Vallarta Botanical Gardens (Mexico), Lalbag Botanical Garden (India), Garden of Dreams (Nepal), Giardino di Boboli (Italy), Japanese garden (Argentina), Medellin Botanical Garden (Colombia) and many more!
You can check the complete list here.