- The kingdom of Naples, covering southern Italy, had truly royal gardens. The Bourbon dynasty rivaled Versailles' gardens at Caserta, just before the geometrical fashion ended. Later gardens followed the English style of 'fake nature', only adapted to the Mediterranean climate.—KGF Vissers
- Basing himself in Naples, Monty is now exploring the gardens in the southern part of Italy. Unlike the formal and rigid gardens he has so far seen in Rome and Florence, he will find that those in this part of the country are what he calls more romantic and softer, more an extension of nature rather than trying to control it. In going on a quest to discover the reason for the difference, he discovers ties to the eighteenth century British landscaping movement, hence the gardens' familiarity to him, albeit translated to a different climate. Even the formal gardens he visits have a sense of casualness literally peering over the formal. Many of the gardens are shaped by the rich and famous, such as Greta Garbo, D.H. Lawrence and Salvador Dalí, taking up residence especially atop the cliffs of the Amalfi coast, bringing with them a glamorous, new world sensibility. On another vein, he visits some urban farms built on the side of an extinct volcano - too steep for urban development - on the outskirts of Naples, much grown the traditional way feeding the Neopolitans. Monty concludes his travels in the south of Italy at what he considers one of the most magical gardens of any type in the world, but definitely the most romantic, in spite or or arguably because of its history of "ruin".—Huggo
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