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Victoria - the City of Gardens
British Columbia, Canada
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With its mild, sub-Mediterranean climate, fertile soils and fanatical gardeners, Victoria is known as the City of Gardens.
Annual Flower Count in February every year, thousand of beautiful hanging baskets around the streets, as well as public and private
gardens in every corner of the city, make Victoria one of the most colorful and loveliest cities of the world.
There are many parks and gardens in the Victoria area.
Butchart Gardens is one of Victoria's best known attractions. Located in Brentwood Bay, 13 miles north of Victoria,
this 50 acres of gardens include the Sunken garden, Rose garden, Japanese garden,
Italian garden, Star Pond, and Ross fountain. The Gardens are illuminated in the summer evenings. Musical entertainment and fireworks are also included
in the summer activities. Festive decor and lighting displays highlight of the Christmas season.
Beacon Hill Park, over 100 acres at Douglas and Dallas streets,
embraces attractive flowerbeds, small lakes, playing fields and lawns that slope to the sea, and one of the world's tallest totem poles.
Thunderbird Park, located behind the Royal British Columbia Museum, presents Native heritage with its renowned totem poles.
Royal Roads University, originally named Hatley Park, includes a beautiful Japanese Garden and
several other gardens on a 650-acre estate originally owned by James Dunsmuir.
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Butchart Gardens
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Beacon Hill Park
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Japanese Garden,
Royal Road University
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