Artificial ruins

Artificial ruins or imitation ruins are edifice fragments built to resemble real remnants of ancient ruins in European landscape parks and estates of the nobility of the 18th and 19th centuries. Ruins were built to aestheticize the destruction of time; man-made ruins were designed to evoke a melancholic and romantic mood in the observer.

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