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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew vs National Portrait Gallery
Both are endorsed by those who travel for a living. On balance, National Portrait Gallery is the choice of most professionals compared to Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. National Portrait Gallery comes in at #10 in London with endorsements from 8 reviewers including Time Out, Travel + Leisure and Let's Go.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Kew Road, Richmond, Kew TW9 3AB
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Fodor's
"Enter the Royal Botanic Gardens, as Kew Gardens are officially known, and you are enveloped by blazes of color, extraordinary blooms, hidden trails, and lovely old follies."
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Frommer's
"It's essentially a vast scientific research center that also happens to be extraordinarily beautiful."
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Travel + Leisure
"Victorian-era greenhouses and the sprawling grounds overflow with 33,000 species of flowers, plants, and trees (the world’s largest living collection)."
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Time Out
"Kew Gardens is a magnificent World Heritage Site covering 300 acres with over 30,000 species of plants."
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Let's Go
"These botanical gardens host the largest collection of plants in the world, and visitors can eat up gorgeous assemblages of roses, orchids, and cacti (or be eaten up by the carnivorous plants)."
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National Portrait Gallery
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St. Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE
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"The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 with a single aim: to gather together portraits of famous (and infamous) British men and women."
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Time Out
"Portraits don't have to be stuffy. The National Portrait Gallery has everything from oil paintings of stiff-backed royals to photos of soccer stars and gloriously unflattering political caricatures."
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Let's Go
"The National Portrait Gallery is the Platonic ideal of Facebook."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"Founded in 1856, the National Portrait Gallery has since 1896 occupied a late-19C Italian Renaissance-style building neighbouring the National Gallery."
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Travel + Leisure
"Explore portraits of famous citizens from Tudor Kings and Queens like King Henry VII in 1505 to the Bronte Sisters in 1834."
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