Flora's Hof
Hidden courtyard garden on a former palace site, replanted in nineteenth-century style with old flowers.
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This guide to Flora's Hof in Utrecht, a hidden courtyard garden beside the Dom, follows Hendrik van Lunteren, a garden architect from Doorn who trained in England and laid out estates and town walks across the Netherlands. It begins in eighteen oh three, when the bishops' old palace on this spot had just been pulled down, leaving empty ground in the middle of the city. Along the way you'll meet orangeries, exotic plants, and a royal patent from Napoleon's brother. Best heard standing among the planted tubs, with the bookshop at your back.
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