In keeping with Will Penn's intent to create a "greene Country Towne" – in fact, a utopia in the New World – Philadelphia has indeed met this promise in its parks and gardens. Historic homesteads, including the country's oldest botanical garden Bartram's Gardens, offer an experience not just of sights, sounds, and scents, but in the history of landscape architecture and cultural trends across four centuries.
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- A Magic Gardens
- B Laurel Hill Cemetery and Sculpture Garden
- C Logan Circle
- D Love Park
- E Rittenhouse Square
- F Washington Square
- G Bartram's Gardens
