 TintagelOff the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, Tintagel has the remains of a medieval fortification, a castle long associated with King Arthur. It is where Arthur is supposed to have been conceived, or so says Geoffrey of Monmouth. |  Milton's Cottage, Chalfont St GilesMilton lived in this 16th-century cottage in Buckinghamshire after 1665 when he was escaping the plague in London. Here he completed Paradise Lost. |  Hortus botanicus, LeidenFounded in 1590, the Hortus botanicus in Leiden is one of the oldest botanical gardens in Europe. The greenhouses and grounds incorporate many trees and plants from Asia, including Southeast Asian orchids, or pictured here, the Malaysian national flower, the hibiscus. |
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