Comments on: Go Green: Hanbury Gardens and Europe’s other garden gems https://www.eurocheapo.com/blog/go-green-hanbury-gardens-and-europes-other-garden-gems.html EuroCheapo editors take on the world of budget travel. Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:19:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.3 By: Susanne Kries & Nicky Gardner https://www.eurocheapo.com/blog/go-green-hanbury-gardens-and-europes-other-garden-gems.html#comment-49906 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:14:46 +0000 http://www.eurocheapo.com/blog/?p=5078#comment-49906 Absolutely, Mary (above). Montjuich is so varied, with its fortified acropolis, a fascinating cemetery, slopes that plunge down to Barcelona harbour, football stadia. Even a cable car if we rightly recall. It is one of Europe’s great urban parks. Another urban gem is the Parc de Bagatelle in Paris. And many European cities boast superb botanic gardens, eg. London (Kew), Naples (near the city centre on the Via Foria), the University Botanical Garden in Lisbon, the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, the Central Botanical Garden in Kiev, and the Tbilisi Botanical Garden – one of the world’s truly great gardens in a fine location above Rustavelis Gamziri in the heart of the Georgian capital.

When we wrote our piece above, we had great gardens in non-urban settings in mind, but good that you have reminded us to mention a few more city-based gardens too. Thank you, Mary. Such gardens are often a wonderful place to escape city bustle, and good for people-watching too.

Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries
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]]> 5078 49906 2009-08-16 12:14:46 By: mary https://www.eurocheapo.com/blog/go-green-hanbury-gardens-and-europes-other-garden-gems.html#comment-49872 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:16:34 +0000 http://www.eurocheapo.com/blog/?p=5078#comment-49872 I spent a lovely day in Monjuic Park in Barcelona. It has a number of tourist features in the way of museums and art galleries, but also miles of quiet green walks punctuated by fountains with a fabulous view of the city.

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