Giardino Eden
The Giardino Eden is a historical garden on the Giudecca island in Venice.
The area was first used by monks in the 16th century, after which a patrician built the Palazzina "Villa delle Rose".
The garden got its name at the end of the 19th century from the Englishman Frederik Eden, who, together with his wife Caroline, made it one of the most famous gardens in Venice from what was then an agricultural area. Numerous artists such as Marcel Proust , Rainer Maria Rilke , George Bernard Shaw , Gabriele D'Annunzio , Ernest Hemingway , Rabindranath Tagore , Jean Cocteau and Eleonora Duse visited this garden and wrote about it. After Caroline Eden's death in 1928, Princess Aspasia of Greece ( Aspasia Manos ) bought the Giardino Eden. Her daughter Alexandra of Greece , who was married to Peter II Karagyorgevich, the exiled King of Yugoslavia, wrote her memoir For a King's Love in the garden .
In 1979 the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser bought the Giardino Eden through his Swiss company.
No visitors are currently allowed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Frederik Eden: A Garden in Venice, first published 1903 in Country Live, Postface by Marie-Thérèse Weal, Frances Lincoln Ltd, London, 2003
- ^ A b Francesco Basaldella: Giudecca - Fatti di Cronaca, Filippi Editore - Venezia, 2011, Quaderno di Cultura Giudecchina n.21 (24), pp. 252, 258-259
- ↑ Venice land register
- ↑ Erika and Wieland Schmied: Hundertwassers Paradiese - The hidden life of Friedrich Stowasser , Knesebeck GmbH & Co. Verlag KG, Munich 2003
Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 25.1 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 4.5 ″ E