Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]
… familiarising the visitors with newly fashionable visual and musical culture: Italianate practices such as masquerades, exoticism with a Chinese pavilion, and concerts in the Rotunda which housed an orchestra. This created shared cultural references. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Advertisement Chinoiserie Entertainement Exoticism Luxury Masquerade Pleasure gardens Politeness Ranelagh was one of the ‘pleasure gardens’, places of … where visitors could take walks in the alleys, and a canal with a Chinese pavilion reflecting the growing taste for exoticism; at night, the garden was illuminated with lanterns. From 1767 there was a garden orchestra. The most …
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