Top ten most beautiful parks of Italy May 21, 2009
The Italian Environment Fund has once again selected the top ten best parks of the country. Out of about 80 properties participating in the event the jury selected the “gold ten”. The value of this rating for tourists is undoubted, since one of the main selection criteria was that the park must be open for visitors and feature excursions as well as regular walks. You can see the list of ten most beautiful parks of the Apennine peninsula presented below.
1. Caserta Park. The company is represented by the most well known British and Italian parks in the Reggia di Caserta. You will wind the most impressive fountains here, the Vanvitelli Aqueduct, a silk factory and much more. All this makes the park-palace complex in Caserta a fairy tale place. UNESCO declared this location part of the World Heritage List.
2. Villa Durazzo Pallavicini. Representing Liguria, this park complex joined the top ten list, located in a place called Villa Durazzo Pallavicini a Pegli, with a fabulous garden, which is one of the most amazing creations of the 19th Century.
3. Villa Pisani 4. Giusti Garden. Venice, the winner of last year’s park championship has presented Villa Pisani in Stra, rightfully considered a small Versailles, and the Giardino Giusti in Verona, with its lawns, statues, procession stairways and artificial caves.
5. Bardini Gardens 6. Villa Gamberaia. Tuscany was especially surprising to the cranky jury with its two gardens of unique beauty and elegance. The Bardini Garden in Florence, with its big Baroque style stairway leading to a Florentine sight-seeing platform, is impressive with its exquisiteness, as well as the other elements of the park. Another beautiful view of the Tuscan city-museum is accessible from the Villa Gamberaia a Settignano Gardens. Tourist can feel as if they are in the very center of Tuscany here, and remain enchanted by the magnificent landscape panorama.
7. Villa Lante Park 8. Vignanelo Palace parks 9. Nymph’s Garden. Are the 3 parks selected from the Lazio region. The first, Villa Lante in Bagni represents a 16th century impression, with fountains, canals, park vegetation and a beautiful flower garden. The virgin beauty is radiated from the garden of the Vignanelo Palace. Its rectangular territory is traversed by geometrically symmetric pathways, along which boxwood, laurel, and cherry laurel shrubs grow abundantly. Not as formal, but apparently much more chaotically stands the Nymph’s Garden, mottled by narrow paths that run between rocks and water.
10. Kolymbetra Garden. Ending our review comes the Kolymbetra Garden which is located in the Valley of Temples in Sicily. This unusual place is perfect for those wishing to enjoy the majesty of nature, undertake archeological research, or engage in the exploration of historical mysteries.
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