We enter here into the legend, since there is no certainty about the reality of these gardens.
Contemporary autors describe differently what these gardens might have been. But they all speak
about gardens artificially built on terraces which were supported by vaults,
and the greenery of which could be seen from far away. Anyhow we can believe that
this construction must have been of a grandiose scale, compared to the familiar plantations
of the Mesopotamian riversides. Built next to the Gate of Ishtar,and alongside the Processional Way,
the Gardens
must have been an amazement for the long caravans heading for the city.
It was out of love for his wife Amyitis that the king Nabuchodonosor had these gardens built.
This Persian princess was longing for her green homeland, so that the king undertook
to build these gardens to wipe her sadness away.
