Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]
… dance and listen to music, attend shows, and have refreshments. They were on the outskirts of cities, offering both city pleasures and the delights of an excursion towards the country and its fresh air: Bath had Spring Gardens near the … other types of social occasion concerned specific social groups, for instance balls in the townhouses of the nobility or city festivities for the merchant classes. The pleasure gardens offered new public spaces corresponding to Enlightenment …
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