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Archive for January, 2007

List of estates open to public updated

Posted in Beeckestijn, Continuous Research, Current Affairs, Heerenduinen, Tusschenwijck, Waterland on January 11th, 2007 No Comments »

The Dutch ministry of agriculture, nature and food quality (LNV) has presented an updated list of estates, falling under the Natuurschoonwet, which are open to the public. The Natuurschoonwet (difficult to translate) basically concerns a law, introduced in 1928 with the aim to protect estates by giving the owner fiscal benefits when they present suitable [...]

Paleis Het Loo: the Reetz design and the current situation compared

Posted in Current Affairs, Garden History, Paleis Het Loo on January 7th, 2007 No Comments »

In this earlier post I mentioned the design by T. Henry Reetz for the garden of Paleis Het Loo, which discovery was made public by Cascade. They also mentioned that the upper part of the garden that had not been restored in the past decades, would be restored in 2007, taking this new design as [...]