Archaeoastronomy and Gardens - Sun and Moon

A garden is a planned space, that is, a controlled space incorporating both natural and man-made materials. In it, sometimes, it is evoked the Garden of Eden, the Paradise on Earth, such as in charbagh gardens.  Here it is proposed a discussion of alignments of the designs of gardens along the directions of sunrise on solstices and moonrise on lunistices. We will start from the Gardens of Taj Mahal.

The Gardens of Taj Mahal and the Sun (2013) - The Taj Mahal Mausoleum and the Moon (2016) - Solar Azimuths in the Planning of a Nur Jahan's Charbagh (2013) - Observations on the Orientation of Some Mughal Gardens (2015) - The Sun, the Moon and the Mughal Emperors (2016) - The Solar Orientation of the Lion Rock Complex in Sri Lanka (2013) - The orientation of the King's Knot of Stirling Castle (2015) - The King's Knot of Stirling Castle and its astronomical orientation (2016) - Winter Solstice and Lunar Standstills in the Gardens of Villa d’Este (2016) - The Garden of Vignanello and the Summer Solstice (2017) - Il Giardino di Vignanello e il Solstizio d’Estate (2017) - The Kensington Gardens and the Solstices (2017) - Alignments to sunrise and sunset on solstices in the layout of Lafayette Square, Washington (2017)