Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski

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Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski, Germany
Photo: Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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May–September
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$$$
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An eccentric Prussian prince spent three decades and much of his fortune turning the Neisse valley into a landscape painting composed of trees, meadows and water. Created by Hermann von Pückler-Muskau between 1815 and 1844, Muskau Park worked with native plants and the terrain's own character rather than imitating idealised classical scenes, and its influence spread through Europe and America. Divided between Germany and Poland since 1945 and now managed jointly, the park was inscribed by UNESCO in 2004.

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