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In the 1760s, Duke Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau and his good friend and architect Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff, embarked on a Grand Tour across Europe. They wanted to see what landscaped gardens looked like in other parts of Europe, and bring back ideas to make the most beautiful garden anywhere, but incorporating modern ideas. In the early 1770s, now back home in Wörlitz, Duke Leopold started laying out what became 142 km2 of amazing stately gardens. These are considered the first and largest English Parks in Germany, as he was heavily influenced by the gardens at Stourhead. Full of manicured lawns, little nooks and corners under variegated woods, impressively majestic trees, well-kept paths, and surrounding both banks of a branch of the Elbe river, the Garden Realms of Dessau-Wörlitz were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. But we’re not… actually, no, l we are here for all this. It’s still peaceful. It’s still serene. And it’s still enjoyable.