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Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm
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Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

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Rank: 1001 UNESCO
Wonder Type: Cultural
Country: Germany
Best of: Park, Garden
Description:
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an exceptional example of landscape design and planning of the Age of the Enlightenment, the 18th century. Its diverse components - outstanding buildings, landscaped parks and gardens in the English style, and subtly modified expanses of agricultural land - serve aesthetic, educational, and economic purposes in an exemplary manner. [More Details]
This article uses material from UNESCO World Heritage List article "Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 IGO License.