Parco Giardino Sigurtà
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| place | Valeggio sul Mincio |
| Created | 18th century |
| Newly designed | from 1941 |
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| Parking area | 600,000 m² |
The Parco Giardino Sigurtà ( German Park Sigurtà ) is a private, but publicly accessible landscape park in Valeggio sul Mincio in the Italian province of Verona . The park is named after its owner and innovator Giuseppe Carlo Sigurtà (1898–1983) and has received several awards.
location
The park is located north of the city of Valeggio sul Mincio. The distance to the southern end of Lake Garda near Peschiera is 10 kilometers. The park extends with an area of 60 hectares on hilly terrain along the left bank of the river Mincio and is about 50 meters above the river. The length of the park is about 1.3 kilometers with an average width of 450 meters. The historic villa at the southern end is not part of the public park.
layout
Single pine
Color scheme
Grotesque box trees
The park has wide areas of meadows made up of small patches of forest, groups of trees or individual trees. A special feature of the park is the harmonious composition of trees and shrubs with different foliage colors. The oldest tree is a 400-year-old oak. The numerous box trees in the park are not cut into strict geometric shapes, as is usually the case, but rather playful and grotesque.
Thousands of flowers alternate in their bloom all year round. The first highlight is the tulip bloom in March and April. Meadows and beds are filled with over a million blossoms from 300 different types of tulips. The term “Tulipanomania” has become established for this event. It is the second largest tulip bloom in Europe after the Dutch Keukenhof .
Tulip blossom
Indian flower tube
Water lilies
The tulips are followed by thousands of irises and the Indian flower tube . From May onwards, over 30,000 roses of various species will bloom in the park. The 600 meter long avenue of roses, planted with the species Queen Elizabeth and Floribunda , runs through the park from north to south. It gets its additional charm from the view of the Scaliger Castle of Valeggio, which is located outside the park .
Water lilies and lotus flowers bloom on the 18 water areas in the park, some with natural boundaries, some geometrically precisely laid out . After numerous other types of flowers, 30 dahlia varieties complete the annual round.
In addition to the beautiful nature, the park also contains some sights. The hermitage and the little castle, which was originally built as an armory and in which Giuseppe Carlo Sigurtà's guests were the Nobel Prize winners Gerhard Domagk (1895–1964), Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) and Giuseppe Carlo Sigurtà, date from the end of the 18th century Selman Abraham Waksman (1888–1973) stayed. At the northwest end of the park is the bronze statue of Giuseppe Carlo Sigurtà, behind which there is a horizontal sundial in a basin . A 2500 m² maze of yew hedges leads to a lookout point in the center of the labyrinth. In an educational farm for children there are animals to touch, and 40 different medicinal herbs are grown in a herb garden .
The hermitage
The little castle
Statue of the Park Renewer
The sundial
The maze
The park path
The park can be explored on foot, but also by bike, with a golf cart , as a group with a small shuttle bus or by round trip on the park train. In addition to visiting the park, it is also used as a place for various types of events.
history
The history of the property, which can be documented in writing, begins in 1407, when the Venetian patrician Gerolamo Nicolò Contarini purchased a plot of land surrounded by a wall ("brolo cinto de muro") for agricultural use. The type of use remained unchanged under the Guarienti family from 1436 to 1626. The Maffei family then came into possession of the property through marriage. In 1693 Count Antonio Maffei had a magnificent Renaissance villa built by the architect Vincenzo Pellesina (1637–1700) .
In 1699 he also acquired the right to draw water from the Mincio River. This made it possible to enlarge the villa's garden because of the otherwise relatively dry terrain. One of the descendants, Antonio Maffei (1759–1836), expanded it to 22 hectares and, on the advice of his nephew, the poet Ippolito Pindemonte (1753–1828), created a landscaped garden in the English style , which also contained some buildings, such as the hermitage . In 1836, following inheritance and marriage, the property passed to the Navuloni family.
Before the Battle of Solferino , which took place nearby, the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830–1916) lived in the manorial villa in the park from June 23 to 24, 1859 , after which the victor, Napoleon III. (1808–1873), June 25 to July 7.
Under the Navulonis until 1929 and then owned by a doctor's widow, the park fell into disrepair. That changed from 1941 when the pharmaceutical entrepreneur Giuseppe Carlo Sigurtà bought the Villa and Park. He exercised the old right to draw water from the Mincio again, brought the park back to life and enlarged it to 60 hectares. After his death, his nephew and previous co-designer of the park, Enzo Sigurtà (1927–2009), continued the work that his children Giuseppe and Magda have now taken over.
The park has been open to the public since 1983. It is constantly being expanded; The horizontal sundial was realized in 1990 and the labyrinth was inaugurated in 2011 after six years of preparation and construction.
Awards (selection)
- 2011 Award for the best care of "Grandi Giardini Italiani"
- 2013 Most beautiful park in Italy (Il Parco Più bello d'Italia)
- 2015 Second place at the European Garden Prize
- 2016 Special award from Parksmania for the event "TulipanoMania"
Web links
- Official website of the park. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
- Parco Giardino Sigurtà. In: gardasee.de. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
- The history of the park. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Events. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Sigurtà, morto il papà del parco. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
- ^ Grandi Giardini Italiani. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
- ^ Il Parco Più bello d'Italia. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
- ^ European Garden Prize. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Parksmania. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
Coordinates: 45 ° 21 ′ 42.2 " N , 10 ° 43 ′ 55.2" E