The perpetual appeal of walled gardens, let alone Venetian ones – private, invisible to those outside, with a delicious water gate giving onto a canal, and exhaling drifts of orange blossom and birdsong over their high walls to the likes of us, traipsing outside along a narrow alley. They are such stuff as dreams are made on…
Venetian Gardens
£40.00
Edition:Hardback978178594742120/10/2022
Categories: 17. Books for Christmas 2022: Gardens, Books for Christmas 2022, Gardens
Tag: Italy
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