Hever Castle- The Italian Garden

[poliphilo]

The Astors went to Italy- and came back with crateloads of bits of ancient monument- rather like Citizen Kane (they too were in the newspaper business). The result was Hever's fabulous Italian Garden

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

The first picture of the Pan/satyr is wonderful!

[currawong.livejournal.com]

Must be nice to have stuff around from the middling past ... here, of course, everything is less than a couple of hundreds years old, or thousands of years old. The earliest examples of Aboriginal rock art date (contentiously) to about 40,000 years ago. Lovely pics.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

What wonderful photographs!

(I must tell you that in our news last night was another vandalism of an old graveyard--lambs' heads sheered off children's headstones, some stones just chopped in half, and these were very old graves dating back to the early 1800s. I am glad these fine statues are in such untouched, if weathered, condition!)