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The most elaborate was that of Nero’s Golden House, which covered more than 300 acres (120 hectares) in the middle of Rome and included an artificial lake (where the Colosseum now stands) and a pastoral landscape of plowland, vineyard, pasture, and wood. These gardens were conspicuously luxurious in their display of precious materials and artificial in their use of hydraulic automata. Luxurious pleasure grounds were made, especially at colonies such as Alexandria and Syracuse. 323–30 bce) by the influence of the East. The relatively austere Greek taste was transformed in the Hellenistic Age ( c. A third type of Greek garden was the sacred landscape, such as the Vale of Tempe or the mountain sanctuary of Delphi. These public recreation grounds set the type for the later Classical Roman villa garden and the 19th-century European public park. The sports grounds, where exercise was taken, became popular gathering places and developed into the original academy and lyceum, which included the exercise ground, seats for spectators, porticoes for bad weather, statues of honored athletes, and groves of shade trees. Much of life, however, was lived in public. In the peristyle was a garden consisting of a water supply and potted plants. Lined with colonnades that gave access to the rooms of the house, the courtyard, or peristyle, was open to the sky and insulated from the street. The urban life of ancient Greece led to houses built around central private courtyards.