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On the border between Umbria and Tuscany, in a beautiful setting between Lake Trasimeno and Cortona, you can admire the “Reinhardt Garden”, which is an absolutely new proposal within the Italian botanic scenario. The garden was first established in 1999, when Thomas Reinhardt and his wife Martina Kofoth, two landscape gardeners and botanists with long years of experience gained in Germany, Israel and the United States, decided to reclaim a 300 hectare plot of land, entirely covered with woods, olive groves, vineyards, fields and pastures, which had been untended for a long time. This is how gradually, and without a preset plan, a creative and eclectic spirit managed to express itself in full harmony with the local landscape.
Our acquaintance with the garden starts with the “Tropical Garden”, where amazing and ever new combinations of plants, tropical and subtropical in particular, convey the feeling that we have suddenly penetrated the depth of a jungle. During our tour, among twistings and turnings, vegetation strokes us, envelopes us and confuses us. It is a very powerful experience: the strength of nature also hints at its transience; life and death take turns in a seasonal dance. The garden bursts into life in summer and then fades and dies away in winter. When in full bloom, its lush plants, the interplay of light and shade, the heady scents and the bright and piercing colours have a soul-stirring effect; they fill your heart with some kind of ecstatic awe, they seem to swallow it up and then set it free, back to the more reassuring dimension of the “Border with perennial herbs and graminaceous plants”. At this point you gain a renewed perception of space and of your own self: the broad and straight path under the open sky and the chiefly perennial plants with staggered blossoming periods are the very opposite of the “Tropical Garden”.
Lastly, you reach the “Garden under the olive trees”, where tradition and experimental techniques seem to harmoniously blend. Ancient knotty olive trees coexist in a perfect symbiotic relationship with small delicate and soft-coloured flowers. Evergreen, perennial and alpine plants, located on different levels, cover a range of gentle hills almost resembling the surface of a sculpture, interrupted here and there by local rocks, retrieved during the digging work.
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Address
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Loc. Piazzano
Tuoro sul Trasimeno (PG)
tel. 075 826079
cell. 334 6339496
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Informations
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subject to booking, by calling tel. no. 334/6339496 |
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Tickets
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Entrance tickets:
full fare € 10.00 - Children under 12 FREE. Possible group discounts. |
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