Italy is a big garden but there are particular, famous and hidden gardens not to be missed
Spring offers unmissable colors and scents. You can discover them in the gardens of Italy. "Green" wonders to be known absolutely.
Gardens between castles and fortresses
These days the Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle in Merano (BZ), with their flowering of over 300.000 specimens, including daffodils, buttercups, Iceland poppies. A 12-hectare garden dedicated to all the plants in the world. Enriched by 7 km of paths, with scents and colors that are renewed with the changing seasons, enclosed in a setting of 10 artistic pavilions.
He turns 24 In the sign of the Lily, protagonist from 21 to 23 April al Park of the Reggia di Colorno (PR). The quality gardening market exhibition will be all about naturalness and bio. With an eye also to health, with plants beneficial for the body, as well as artisanal products such as liqueurs, soaps, compotes, honey. There will be educational activities with workshops for children and adults.
The monumental nineteenth-century park of Masino Castle, in Caravino (TO) from 28 April to 1 May hosts Three days for the garden. Large exhibition market of unusual flowers and plants, tools and furnishings for the garden.
Villa della Porta Bozzolo, in Casalzuigno (VA), May 27th and 28th hosts Rose di Maggio. Exhibition and market of ancient and modern roses and their ideal combinations in the garden, with some of the best Italian nurserymen in the sector, to whom you can ask for information and advice.
Blooming season in the Marche hills, in particular in the garden of the Rocca d'Ajello of Dressing room (MC). A unique show of ancient roses, flowering bushes, perennials, bulbous plants, clematis and a multitude of spontaneous blooms.
Gardens by the sea
It is the oldest historical garden in Taormina (ME), that of Cuseni House, built at the beginning of the 900th century by the English painter Robert kitson in a unique landscape in front of Etna and the Sicilian sea. It is a Mediterranean garden where African plants and English roses mix with the many local citrus fruits. And from which you can enjoy a wonderful view.
The entire complex has been declared for its high historical and artistic value Italian National Monument. Since 2015 is the Museum of Fine Arts and the Grand Tour of Taormina. And it often hosts artistic events.
Two hectares with over 3.000 species of plants and, in the water, papyrus, lotuses and tropical water lilies, I Giardini La Mortella, in Forio d'Ischia (NA), a wonderful oasis of the William Walton Foundation, welcomes the public with traditional visits to the Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 9 to 19. The spring reopening period is accompanied by a series of enchanting blooms such as that of Strongylodon macrobotrys. Filipino climber with clusters of turquoise flowers that can be up to one meter long.
Oriental magnolias are also ready to enchant, together with wisteria and camellias in bloom.
In La Mortella, moreover, nature meets music, with the three concert seasons scheduled from April to October. On June 22, the summer one will open at the Greek Theater, which has the marvelous bay of Forio d'Ischia as its backdrop.
Both places are part of the network of the Great Italian Gardens, which turns 2017 in 20 and counts 124 of the most beautiful gardens that can be visited in all of Italy.
Gardens in the city
Discovering a Bologna little known with Diverdeinverde-Open gardens of the city and the hill, from 19 to 21 May. The city opens the gates of the hidden gardens of its historic center and the parks of the foothills and the nearby plain.
Fifty private gardens that can be visited by the public to enchant with their variety of plants, flowers and trees.
The cloisters and of gardens of Sant'Ambrogio, Milano, open from 21 to 23 April to host Flora and Decora to the delight of fans of flowers, plants, furnishings for the home, garden and terrace. And you can take a guided tour of the Basilica with the Neiade association.
Gardens on gentle slopes
History, fragrances and flavors of Franciacorta a Franciacorta in bloom, from 19 to 21 May, in the medieval village of born (BS). The botanical review of perennial roses and herbaceous plants is an opportunity to take lessons in gardening and flower arrangement. To also go and explore the area, also devoting himself to the food and wine aspect.
