Here is a curious way to go sightseeing. How about looking for labyrinths in Europe ? It would be a very original way to travel, discover and visit new places. An unconventional tourism but that can be a lot of fun. Do you dare to lose yourself in them? It is a journey through the imagination of its builders.
In general, labyrinths have always been built. Enigmatic and challenging they have been raised 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 labyrinths have become a tourist and landscape attraction , which defy the logic and 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 labyrinth, the Parque del Laberinto de Horta . It is the labyrinth that appears in the image above. In León we find the “Girándula” Corn Labyrinth . A labyrinth of Celtic design that is inside a park where you can also enjoy other labyrinths and various attractions. We are still in Spain and now we travel to Madrid. A city where we can visit the Labyrinth of the Garden "El Capricho" , as well as the labyrinth of the Casa de Campo de Felipe II.
And if we look outside of Spain, in the rest of Europe we find mazes in London, Scotland or Germany among many places. The Hampton Court Labyrinth for example in London. On the outskirts of Aberdeen in Scotland is the Hazlehead Park hedge maze . And finally, in Germany one of the most beautiful and the longest in the country, is the Altjessnitz Labyrinth , which has 200 possible routes to get to the center.