Visit to discover the Portuguese Literary Garden Massobrio in Calcata

Name: Visit to discover the Portuguese Literary Garden Massobrio in Calcata
Start: 2024-06-01T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-01T13:30:00+02:00
Location: Giardino letterario Portoghesi della memoria a Calcata

Guided tour of the Portuguese Historical Literary Garden.

Sábado 1 junio, 09:00Passed

Herramientas de registro

3385064584

Guided tour of the Portuguese Historical Literary Garden. First prize "Most beautiful gardens in Italy" 2024. The Garden is near the historic center of Calcata. Who wants to participate in this program: 9:10 appointment at the parking lot of Calcata nuova - Via della Mandolina. - visit to the garden and the new Galleria Apollodoro. - at the end of the visit to the garden, you visit the historic center of Calcata. - end of the visit 13/13:30. Cost €20 per person (the cost includes the whole package). Wear comfortable shoes anti slip.🥾 📌 Book in advance to Teresa di Cosimo - Association Dromos ☎️338.5064584 🦋 Reservations can also be made by message whatsapp Specifying: NAME - COGMOME OF THE PARTICIPANTS VISIT PORTUGUESE GARDEN MASONRY 1 JUNE 24 The location of the municipal parking of Calcata will be sent if necessary. Reservations will have a closed number of minimum 20 people and maximum 60 people.

About the location

Giardino letterario Portoghesi della memoria a Calcata

Via Cadorna 59, Calcata, (Viterbo)

Viterbo
Lazio

The garden that Paolo Portoghesi, renowned architect and architectural historian, has created since 1990 with his wife Giovanna Massobrio is located on the plateau in view of the valley of Treja and the village of Calcata, jutting out on a tuff spur. There are symbols and memories that summarize the life experience and culture of its creators. The garden is eccentric compared to the house, built where space allowed and the relationship with the landscape more intense and direct. To climb to the garden a double staircase in tuff frames, between the shimmer of lemon trees, a large egg, symbol of life and its cosmic renewal, and guides the perspective to the upper floor from which several paths depart. The egg is the work of Costantino Morosin, an artist linked to Calcata and its territory. The constitutive elements of the work-garden, a reinterpretation of classical images mediated by modern forms, are present here: the stone, the topiary of the hedges, the water, the plants with their s