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Cecil Pinsent trained in London before settling in Florence, where he created symmetrical, geometrically ordered Tuscan gardens for the vibrant local Anglo-American expatriate community.

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English gardens have been deeply intertwined with Italian design since Roman antiquity, evolving through Tudor symmetry, classical 18th-century revivalism, and Victorian geometric formalism.

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The gardens at Levens Hall are best known as the home of the world’s oldest topiary garden, an extraordinary collection of ancient box and yew trees sculpted into abstract and geometric shapes.