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Walk a garden designed to be read
by Ian Hamilton Finlay
A Scottish garden where every stone, bench and bed carries an inscription.
8 October 2026
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Little Sparta is a garden in the Pentland Hills that Ian Hamilton Finlay built over forty years as a poem you can walk through. Classical temples, a French Revolution bed, carved aphorisms and a naval war in miniature all share the same acreage. It is stubborn, beautiful and hard to categorise, which is the point.
Read about the garden externally
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Sparta
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