Discovering the colours and scents of the garden

Name: Discovering the colours and scents of the garden
Start: 2024-06-01T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-02T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Giardino Bortolotti detto dei Ciucioi

Free visit to the lower part of the Garden with itinerary that, among the scents of the blooms of citrus, lavender, jasmine, ancient roses, crosses the spiral path, the house of the gardener, the...

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Free visit to the lower part of the Garden with itinerary that, among the scents of the blooms of citrus, lavender, jasmine, ancient roses, crosses the spiral path, the gardener’s house, the secret garden, the terrace with perennial plants, the parterre of the fountain, the terrace of lemons, the winter garden, the terrace of aromatic plants,.

About the location

Giardino Bortolotti detto dei Ciucioi

Vicolo dei Ciucioi, 1 - 38015 LAVIS (TN)

Provincia di Trento
Trentino-Alto Adige

The unique creation of a singular character, the Bortolotti Garden known as dei Ciucioi - (name crippled from the German name Zum Zoll = at customs) - exemplifies the peculiarity of the architecture of greenery in the Alpine context. The complex bears the name of its creator, Tommaso Bortolotti (Lavis, 1796-1872), who dedicated every resource to the realization of his visionary project articulated in a mysterious initiatory path that goes up seven levels of terraces, characterized by surprising constructive artifices functional to the cultivation of citrus fruits and Mediterranean plants. After the death of the owner, the architecture remained substantially intact until the first decades of the twentieth century, while the original vegetation began a progressive decline; during the century, the garden, subject to many changes of ownership, lost its formal characteristics, with the advance of the weeding vegetation, widespread collapses of the side terraces and the leaching of the lime