Vegetable Gardens, Botanical Gardens and Special Collections is an itinerary designed to let the public know the gardens of the Network that are characterized by these specific features and to suggest the best moment to appreciate them.
Among vegetable gardens fall the famous vegetable gardens of the University of Milano, Padova, Palermo and Catania, but also little treasures like Giardino di Villa Parravicino Sossnovsky (Erba, CO), which can visit in June: a vegetable garden perfectly harmonized in the splendid monumental garden. Descending in Liguria I invite you to discover the Kitchen gardens of the marquise Durazzo of Villa Durazzo Pallavicini (Genoa Pegli), born by the will of the marquise Clelia Durres in 1794. At his death, both the villa and the vegetable garden, they were inherited by the nephew, Ignazio Pallavicini, to whom we owe the construction of the great Romantic Park that today distinguishes the estate of Pegli. The current layout of the garden, inaugurated in 2004, provides about 4500 square meters of exhibition space and about 1500 cultivated species.
In Lazio it is the garden of the Pope to fascinate. After the historic decision of Pope Francis to open to the public the summer residence of the Popes of the Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo, here you can admire the huge rustic garden that occupies about half of the 55 hectares of the papal gardens.
Do not miss the characteristic kitchen gardens of the chefs of Villa d'Este in Cernobbio and Villa della Pergola in Alassio, to which the chefs, respectively Michele Zambanini and Giorgio Servetto, draw to prepare their delicacies. And again the vegetable gardens of aromatic plants of the Parco Giardino Sigurtą (Valeggio sul Mincio, VR) and de La Cervara (Santa Margherita Ligure, GE).
In Switzerland, on the other hand, in the greenery surrounding the historic orangery of the botanical garden Merian Gärten (Basel, CH), ancient varieties of vegetables, berries and ornamental historical plants are cultivated.
Among vegetable gardens fall the famous vegetable gardens of the University of Milano, Padova, Palermo and Catania, but also little treasures like Giardino di Villa Parravicino Sossnovsky (Erba, CO), which can visit in June: a vegetable garden perfectly harmonized in the splendid monumental garden. Descending in Liguria I invite you to discover the Kitchen gardens of the marquise Durazzo of Villa Durazzo Pallavicini (Genoa Pegli), born by the will of the marquise Clelia Durres in 1794. At his death, both the villa and the vegetable garden, they were inherited by the nephew, Ignazio Pallavicini, to whom we owe the construction of the great Romantic Park that today distinguishes the estate of Pegli. The current layout of the garden, inaugurated in 2004, provides about 4500 square meters of exhibition space and about 1500 cultivated species.
In Lazio it is the garden of the Pope to fascinate. After the historic decision of Pope Francis to open to the public the summer residence of the Popes of the Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo, here you can admire the huge rustic garden that occupies about half of the 55 hectares of the papal gardens.
Do not miss the characteristic kitchen gardens of the chefs of Villa d'Este in Cernobbio and Villa della Pergola in Alassio, to which the chefs, respectively Michele Zambanini and Giorgio Servetto, draw to prepare their delicacies. And again the vegetable gardens of aromatic plants of the Parco Giardino Sigurtą (Valeggio sul Mincio, VR) and de La Cervara (Santa Margherita Ligure, GE).
In Switzerland, on the other hand, in the greenery surrounding the historic orangery of the botanical garden Merian Gärten (Basel, CH), ancient varieties of vegetables, berries and ornamental historical plants are cultivated.
