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Sunday 2 June, 10:00Passed
Conditions
Free entrance during the opening hours at a rate of 7.50 euros full and 6 reduced. Last access allowed 17.00\. Admission by reservation for guided tour at 10.30 and 15.00: euro 12 full and 9 euro reduced
June 2024
Sunday 2
10:00 - 18:00

Giardino di Pojega-Villa Rizzardi

Via di Villa Rizzardi, 10, Pojega
  • Verona
  • Veneto

The sense of the garden

Opening and guided tours
Sunday 2 June, 10:00Passed
Conditions
Free entrance during the opening hours at a rate of 7.50 euros full and 6 reduced. Last access allowed 17.00\. Admission by reservation for guided tour at 10.30 and 15.00: euro 12 full and 9 euro reduced
©guerrieri rizzardi

The garden of Pojega satisfies the view for the extraordinary play of perspective between the green areas and the original architecture of the eighteenth century, stimulates the sense of smell with the essences perceived in the grove and walking on the lawn, where you can hear the nature between "chirping of birds and strormir of fronds" and on which you can lie down for a total natural immersion. The best finish can only be to enjoy a genuine sip of wine produced by the vineyards that surround this wonder

Types of events
Guided tour
2024 Theme
The five senses in the garden
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Conditions for participation
Registration required
Type of audience
General public

About the location

Giardino di Pojega-Villa Rizzardi
Via di Villa Rizzardi, 10, Pojega
  • Verona
  • Veneto
Resting like a pillow on the expanse of the vineyards of Valpolicella, the historic Pojega Garden is famous worldwide for its "theater of verzura", unique in its kind, still perfectly in order and used for selected occasions. The spectacularity of its layout, designed at the end of the eighteenth century by the architect Luigi Trezza (1752-1823), is reconciled with the desire of Count Antonio Rizzardi to have a garden «that contained secret corners already dreamed of by poets and philosophers» and whose center was «the desire of the heart», realized in the round fountain enclosed by the wings in cypress, mortella and laurel. This inspiration, however, also combined a great sense of scenery and landscape and wanted Pojega to become the triumph of perspective. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that, unlike the typically English canons in vogue at the time, Luigi Trezza managed to reconcile the formal "Italian" garden of the Renaissance tradition with the "romantic" garden, created to recre
Tags
Private garden, Giardino storico formale
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