Sunday 10 May 2009

The Walled Garden - Paradise


The earliest known Walled Garden dates from around 500BC, when Cyrus the Great, King of Persia ordered the construction of a Paridaida at Pasargadae. The Paridaida was conceived and constructed as a series of palaces and pavillions placed among geometrically designed gardens, parterres and meticulously hewn dressed stone water-courses, set in a large formal park containing numerous flora and fauna.
The Old Persian Paridaida and Median Peridaiza both mean 'Walled-Around, or Walled Garden'. 'The Greeks translated this into Paradeisoi, then into the Latin Paradisus. From there it entered European languages as Paradis in French and Paradise in English.

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