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Palazzo Versace and Couran Cove: Contrasting Resort Gardens of the Gold Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Kate Green
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There are 450 accommodation facilities on the Gold Coast, including hotels, caravan parks, apartments, villas and resorts. This paper will focus on two distinctly different resorts – each has a distinct image and consequently the difference in the garden styles is vast. Palazzo Versace at Main Beach, on the northern end of the Gold Coast mainland tourist strip is the epitome of style. Palazzo Versace has been described as ‘a place of Renaissance splendour, elegance and ease – in a breathtaking location’. By contrast the eco-tourism resort of Couran Cove Island Resort, stretching from the ocean front to the Broadwater, is a gentle and relaxing kind of place, a haven from the energetic and glamorous, busy Gold Coast.

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Special Issue: TROPICAL PLEASURES: A Focus on Queensland Gardens. Papers of the 24th National Australian Garden History Society, Brisbane 11–13 July 2003.
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Queensland Review , Volume 10 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Tropical Pleasures: A Focus on Queensland Gardens. Papers of the 24th National Australian Garden History Society, Brisbane 11-13 July 2003. , November 2003 , pp. 141 - 148
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 

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1 www.versace.com.au downloaded 24 July 2003.Google Scholar

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