Labyrinths, as before, and today, represent a rather enigmatic design with millions of lines entangled. The oldest and most famous of these was a maze built in Crete for the mythical creation Minotaur. Fashion for the maze has not ceased to be relevant and to the present. Only now the most urgent creation of 'live' mazes. In Europe today, is quite popular creation of parks and gardens with a large intersection between alleys.
Wealthy people often create very similar in the garden areas and their suburbs. Fashion on the European continent to such enigmatic structures have never ceased to be popular. So, gardens, labyrinths in French Versailles residence, attracted the attention of the international community. Thousands of paths intertwined, not given to people trapped in a long time to get out of it. They are very much relished European nobility. even the Pope Clement X, borrowing the idea of French green maze, recreating something like that, and at his villa Altieri, which was situated near Rome.
Its very teshilo, when all his court staff went into these labyrinths of his order, and for a long time could not get out on their own. "Live" mazes have always been a place of magic in Europeans gather the forces of nature, which did not give out to those who randomly or specifically got into them. It was believed that the wall of shrubs and trees may have to restructure themselves, than their last hope of a blind prisoners. In our time, "live" labyrinths in Europe have attracted much attention tourists. The largest of the maze in the world that is today in the garden of English castle Blenheim, all year attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world. Of course, completely lost in these mazes in the 21st century not allow any equipment or guides. But the thrill of intellectual tasks and there is always enough. Source –