Keukenhof Garden & Castle - Guided Tour 2021 Part 2 - Official Keukenhof Video Clip with Commentary

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Welcome to my My Barrio, My Mundo and welcome to Keukenhof! It is spring time in the Netherlands, the best time to visit Europe's biggest garden. It is still closed so I am going to give a commentary on this official Keukenhof video clip to bring you the scenery, sounds, and the history of the place, and in this part 2 of the virtual tour, we will be touring also the castle.

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Keukenhof is situated on the 15th-century hunting grounds of Slot Teylingen; it was the castle's kitchen garden providing fruit and vegetables. The most noted inhabitant, and beneficiary of the garden was Countess Jacoba van Beieren (1401-1436). In 1638, the estate was purchased by Adriaen Maertensz Block, captain and governor of the East Endies Company. In 1641 he had a large manor house constructed, which he named Keukenhof, now known as Castle Keukenhof.

In 1857, Baron and Baroness Van Pallandt, at the time owners of the estate, tasked landscape architect Jan David Zocher and his son Louis Paul Zocher, both also designers of Amsterdam's Vondelpark, to restructure the park and grounds around the castle. Those parks, designed in English style, remain the foundations for the gardens.

Keukenhof, the park as it is now known, was established in 1949 by a consortium of bulb growers and flower exporters to showcase their products and support the export industry. The garden opened to the public in 1950 and received 200,000 visitors in its first year.