It is a wonderful tourist complex suitable at all needs. It include :a medieval castle, a Greek Revival villa and outstanding , plant -rich gardens to explore ,all complex take in thirty acres of picturesque landscaping. The medieval castle is built as refuge during the Anglo-Scottish warfare: at first floor great chamber still displays rare traces of elaborate medieval wall-paintings.
Belsay Hall is an austerely Classical Greek Revival villa plan by Sir Charles Monck who to draw ispiration from greece buidings ,particulary the Temple of Theseus. At last there's the vast gardens which provide a magnificent setting for castle and hall are also largely the work of Sir C. Monck. In these gardens can find rugged and romantic Quarry Garden, created where stone was cut for his hall, has ravines, pinnacles and sheer rock faces inspired by the quarries of Sicily. Subsequently the Grandson Sir Arthur Middleton, likewise a pioneering plantsman, further embellished the Quarry with a wider range of exotic species, as well as adding the Winter Garden, Yew Garden and Magnolia Terrace.
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