Italy's Giardino di Ninfa is hailed as the world's most beautiful garden

Italy's Garden of the Nymphs! (Also known as:Giardino di Ninfa) (Giardino di Ninfa), a place praised by The New York Times as "the most beautiful garden in the world," and also rated by the BBC documentary "80 Gardens Around the World" as the most romantic garden in the world.

In a former life it was an ancient Roman city, and in the Middle Ages it was quite prosperous. In 1159 AD, Pope Alexander III (Alessandro III) was crowned here; later it fell into ruin due to war and malaria, and in the early 20th century it was taken over by private hands and restored. With its ancient, tranquil medieval style, tower-like structures and broken walls rising amid the lush greenery, and reflections in the clear river below covered with ribbon-like green trees swaying gently. It is utterly and completely a fairy-tale world. An extraordinary crystallization between a thousand years of human history and the creativity of plants.

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