Gibraltar to Kent, England by Philip H. Elwood, 1930

Description: Iowa State College landscape architecture professor Philip Elwood takes students on a tour of western Europe and countries along the Mediterranean Sea. This film contains views of the rock of Gibralter and the coast of Algeria as the party sails on the MV "Vulcania", street scenes in Algeria, and the ancient city of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. The tour then went on to Egypt where they visited the port of Alexandria and the great pryamid of Cheops before heading on to Italy. In Venice they viewed the Doges Palace, the campanile on St. Mark's Square, the Palazzo Lezze on the Grand Canal, boated through the city. It was then on to the gardens of Fontainbleau in France and the Chateau at Vaux-le-Vicomte near Melum designed by LeBrun, painter ; LaVaux, architect ; and LeNotre, landscape architect. In Paris, they visited the Gardens of Luxembourg. In England the party visited Hampton Court along the Thames where they saw its perennial boarders, the King's Privy Garden, and Queen Anne's garden. They then took a bus tour of London and saw Tower Bridge, visited Kew Gardens, and traveled to Kent to see Groombridge Place gardens, owned by Mr. H. S. Mountain with house designed by Sir Christopher Wren and gardens by John Evelyn.

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