Located in the London Borough of Richmond on the Thames, in south-west London, England, is the former royal palace, the Hampton Court Palace. It is approximately twelve miles (accurately 181.8 km) to the south-western parts of the Charing Cross and upstream the Thames river in Central London. This place is a good visitor and sightseeing attraction and is open to public viewing. The yearly Hampton Court Palace Festival is conducted in the Home Park of the palace, along with the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. It is the only remaining architecture enacted by Henry VIII, besides the St. James’s Palace.

There are many collections on display in the palace, and these are mostly the art belonging to the Royal Collection. These go back to the two chief times when the structure was being constructed; the early Tudor (Renaissance) and the late Stuart to the early Georgian times. Situated in the Lower Orangery is the chief tourist attraction here, the Mantegna’s Triumphs of Caesar. The Raphael Cartoons were once placed in this palace. The cartoon gallery was designed by Christopher Wren for this very purpose. Today, in place of the cartoons, one can now see the works of Henry Cooke, his paintings from the 1690s.

This place also has the immensely popular Hampton Court Palace Hedge Maze. This was supposedly grown sometime during 1689 and 1695 by George London and Henry Wise on the instruction of William III of Orange. The hedge occupies around one third of an acre and contains almost half a mile of traverse. It is said that the current design has actually replaced a previous one that was grown by Thomas Cardinal Wolsey. The maze was initially grown using hornbeam, although it now has several other varieties too, occupying a total of sixty acres (almost 0.2 sq. km).

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