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Parco del Valentino

Parco del Valentino

Landscape architect

Year

1856

Type

landscape

Parco del Valentino is a popular public park in Turin, Italy. It is located along the west bank of the Po river. It covers about 421,000 square meters, which makes it Turin's second largest park. Turin laid it out to a design by the…

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Parco del Valentino
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Timeline

  1. 1856

    Original construction

    Jean-Baptiste Kettmann

  2. 1864

    Picturesque redesign

    The park was reworked in the picturesque manner after a design by the French landscape architect Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps, chief gardener of Paris under Napoleon III, who had planted the Bois de Boulogne and the Buttes-Chaumont. His…

    Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps

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