The ultimate romantic gift, the enchanting garden of Liselund was built by Antoine de la Calmette in the late 1700s as a present for his wife (the name means ‘Lise’s Grove’). Paths wind their way under chestnut trees, by waterfalls, streams and ponds, up to a viewpoint on the sea cliffs, and past buildings designed to invoke exotic destinations – a Chinese pavilion, Greek ‘ruins’, an Egyptian pyramid. It’s a blissful vision, disrupted occasionally by the raucous shriek of wandering peacocks.
