Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Patrimoine Mondial de l'UNESCO

This historic landscape garden features elements that illustrate significant periods of the art of gardens from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The gardens house botanic collections (conserved plants, living plants and documents) that have been considerably enriched through the centuries. Since their creation in 1759, the gardens have made a significant and uninterrupted contribution to the study of plant diversity and economic botany. Criterion (ii): Since the 18th century, the Botanic Gardens of Kew have been closely associated with scientific and economic exchanges established throughout the world in the field of botany, and this is reflected in the richness of its collections. The landscape features and architectural features of the gardens reflect considerable artistic influences both with regard to the European continent and to more distant regions. Criterion (iii): Kew Gardens have largely contributed to advances in many scientific disciplines, particularly botany and ecology. The landscape gardens and the edifices created by celebrated artists such as Charles Bridgeman, William Kent, Lancelot ‘Capability' Brown and William Chambers reflect the beginning of movements which were to have international influence. 📸 © OUR PLACE The World Heritage Collection

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FR « Depuis l’ovale du massif de fleurs ». Les premiers mots de la nouvelle de Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens, écrite en 1919, dépeignent un univers végétal et silencieux. Aujourd’hui, ces jardins botaniques du comté de Surrey, à 30 minutes de Londres, reçoivent 2 millions de visiteurs par an. Les palmiers, les fleurs, les plantes tropicales et les arbres de tous les continents sont ceux qu’admirait l’écrivain. Et il reste possible de trouver un coin tranquille au hasard de ces 121 hectares classés au patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco. En cas de pluie, on se réfugiera dans la sublime bibliothèque, qui contient le plus grand herbier du monde, ou bien dans l’une des innombrables serres. EN “From the oval-shaped flower-bed…” The first words from Virginia Woolf’s short story, Kew Gardens, written in 1919, depicts a green and silent universe. Today, these Surrey County Botanical Gardens, 30 minutes from London, welcome 2 million visitors per year. You’ll find the palm trees, flowers, tropical plants and trees from all the continents that the writer admired. It’s still possible to randomly come across a quiet corner in these 121 hectares, a classified UNESCO World Heritage site. In case of rain, you can take shelter in the sublime library, which contains the largest herbarium in the world, or in one of the countless greenhouses.

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