Floriade 1972 was a garden festival held in

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following its recognition by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE). The 1972 exposition was the fifth edition of the international

horticultural exposition A garden festival is a festival and exposition held to celebrate the arts of gardening, garden design, landscaping and landscape architecture. There are local garden festivals, regional garden festivals, national garden festivals and internat ...

organised under the auspices of the Association of International Horticultural Producers ( AIPH) and the second Floriade in the Netherlands. The first Amsterdam Floriade lasted from March 30 to October 1, 1972. The exposition was held at the newly created

Amstelpark The Amstelpark is a park in Amsterdam-Zuid. The park includes a labyrinth, a café, a restaurant, two galleries, an orangery, a petting zoo and a mini-golf course. Background The Amstelpark was built and opened for the 1972 Floriade garden ...

and Beatrix Park. The landscaped grounds at Amstelpark covered 700.000m². Beatrix Park, part of the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre and a portion of the embankment on which later the ring road south and the

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were built, was part of the Floriade. The sites were connected by a cable car and carts. A narrow gauge railway and Ferris wheel were also built at Amstelpark. After the closure of the Floriade, much of the amenities that were built for the event remained at Amstelpark. These included the Amstel train (a narrow-gauge railway ), a maze, a rose garden, an

orangery An orangery or orangerie was a room or a dedicated building on the grounds of fashionable residences of Northern Europe from the 17th to the 19th centuries where orange and other fruit trees were protected during the winter, as a very lar ...

, the Glass House, greenhouses, a miniature golf course, the Rhododendron Valley, The Abandoned land, Galerie Papillon Park and a large playground for children.

External links

Official website of the BIE
{{List of world exhibitions International horticultural exhibitions 1972 in the Netherlands Events in Amsterdam Festivals in the Netherlands Garden festivals in the Netherlands 1972 festivals Floriade (Netherlands) 1970s in Amsterdam