Portrait artist to European royalty and leading cultural figures, Michele Gordigiani reshaped Striano with architect Luigi Del Moro as a house for painting, music and entertaining. Its extraordinary limonaia draws on the same Florentine garden tradition as the famous grotto at the Boboli Gardens.

Brechin Castle has stood on Scotland’s east coast for more than 700 years, shaped by kings, war, rebellion and generations of aristocratic families. Its grounds include one of Scotland’s most remarkable private gardens.

Built in 1702, this historic villa for sale near Milan sits on 25 acres with formal Italian gardens, a 19th-century English park, and a remarkable hidden Secret Garden.

Before designing Parc Monceau in the 8th arrondissement, Louis Carrogis Carmontelle laid out one of France’s earliest romantic parks at this 18th-century château less than an hour from Paris.

100 km / 62 miles from Paris, the Normandy estate was converted into a regional art centre in 1970 and has exhibited works by artists including Salvador Dalí, Victor Vasarely, Leonor Fini, Georges Mathieu, Braque, and Volti.

Set high above the Dorset Downs, Chedington Court combines a historic water garden fed by a natural river source with a fully modernised country estate. The result is a rare balance of landscape, infrastructure, and setting.

The château occupies a rare position in southwest France, on the historic borders of Gascony—set on the edge of a small village, yet oriented almost entirely toward its own private grounds.

An exceptional example of early 18th-century French classicism, this estate carries the architectural ambition of the period that produced it. Its history spans the speculative boom of 1720 and the enduring Revolutionary-era anecdote that links it, however loosely, to Marie Antoinette.

Designed by Robert Adam, the leading neoclassical architect of the Georgian era, this 764-acre, Category A–listed estate near Edinburgh blends significant architecture with a historically attributed Versailles-inspired landscape and income-generating properties.

Originally built for the monks of Bath in 1591, this 14-acre estate includes a Grade I-listed manor, a tithe barn, and two guesthouses amid protected historic gardens.