"In a Renaissance garden, you can see in half an hour three or four different information layers," he says.

No original plan of the renaissance garden survives, although records show fruit was grown in the 17th century.

They are regarded as some of the most beautiful Renaissance gardens in Europe.

All these elements were to appear in French Renaissance gardens.

The lower park is modeled upon a style called the Italian Renaissance garden.

They were often combined with cascading fountains in Renaissance gardens.

'I don't like those high Renaissance gardens much,' she said, though unaggressively.

Bygdøy was the summer residence for the viceregent and had a renaissance garden from around 1680.

Outside are Renaissance gardens, and beyond, a charmed lake-and-mountains landscape.

Renaissance private gardens were full of scenes from ancient mythology and other learned allusions.