Vista

a view, a narrow perspective directed by framing planes toward an outstanding element of the landscape — the focus of the perspective. It includes the viewpoint (the place from which perception is optimal), the framing (, fixing the view), the middle ground (usually plant wings that should not distract attention from the main element) and the culminating object of observation that completes the v…

a view, a narrow perspective directed by framing planes toward an outstanding element of the landscape — the focus of the perspective. It includes the viewpoint (the place from which perception is optimal), the framing (, fixing the view), the middle ground (usually plant wings that should not distract attention from the main element) and the culminating object of observation that completes the vista. The visual focus may be, for example, architectural structures, monuments, a lake, a hill, a tree unusual in shape or color, a sunlit glade at the end of a clearing or a shaded alley, etc.