Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Powerscourt Estate

 
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Striking landscape shot, very detailed, excellently illustrating the house and gardens, encyclopedic and relevant to several articles.
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Powerscourt Estate, near Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland, is a large country estate which is noted for its house and landscaped gardens, today occupying 47 acres. Visible from left to right; the house, built between 1731 and 1741, reconstructed in 1996 after being gutted by a fire; the Italian Garden, laid out during the 1840's, including several statues from the period and a sundial; and two Winged Horses, executed in zinc by Hugo Hagen in Berlin in 1869.
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Powerscourt Estate, Historic houses in the Republic of Ireland, Country house, History of gardening.
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Schcambo.

Not promoted ----Stefan talk 00:49, 26 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]