Here is a curious way of sightseeing. What do you think go searching mazes around Europe? It would be a very original way to explore, discover and visit new places. An unconventional tourism but that can be a lot of fun. Do you dare lose yourself in them? It is a journey through the imagination of its builders.
In general, mazes have always been built. Enigmatic and challenging they have been rising in churches, palaces, museums, gardens, etc .; and using various materials that can range from simple rocks and traditional hedges, to wheat or sunflowers. Today many mazes have become one landscape and tourist attraction, who challenge logic and the sense of direction of each one who dares to enter them. In Europe they can be visited in various places. Below is a small list of some of the best known.
Without leaving Spain, we can find some very well known and very beautiful. In Barcelona, for example, there is a neoclassical maze, the Parque del Horta Labyrinth. It is the labyrinth that appears in the upper image. In León we find the Corn maze "Girándula". A labyrinth of Celtic design that is located within a park where you can also enjoy other mazes and various attractions. We are still in Spain and we are now traveling to Madrid. A city where we can visit the Laberinto del Jardín “El Capricho”, just like him maze of the Casa de Campo de Felipe II.
And if we look outside Spain, in the rest of Europe we find mazes in London, Scotland or Germany among many places. The Hampton Court Maze for example in London. On the outskirts of Aberdeen, Scotland is the Hedge Maze Hazlehead Park. And finally, in Germany one of the most beautiful and longest in the country is the Altjessnitz maze, which has 200 possible routes to get to the center.
Getting Lost in a Maze! | Venice, Italy (April 2024)
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