Parco Giardino dei Ligustri

The Park, located near the historic medieval centre of Loreto Aprutino, looks like a large and complex naturalistic painting made of shrubs, palms, large trees and embellished by glimpses, views, paths and avenues. His name comes from the privets, a tree which characterizes the garden and has been used to create several galleries and green hedges in combination with the laurel oak. This historical garden was realized at the beginning of the 20th century and then recovered, after several decades of neglect, thanks to an ambitious landscaping project started in 1998 and completed after fifteen years of work and reclamation of the entire perimeter. The views within the Park have been created to stimulate painting, drawing, photography and contemplation. The compositions of colours and natural shapes are designed to give birth to a picturesque garden with amphorae and statues as well as pergolas made with climbing plants and verdant galleries. Among the selected trees of the garden, there are age-old boxes, tall cypress trees, elms, holm oaks, a great variety of palms, old trees of persimmon, with a thick herbaceous undergrowth as well as evergreen and flowering shrubs. Since its recovery, the purpose of the Park has been to captivate and surprise visitors and let them be carried away to another dimension, in direct contact with Nature and Garden Art. All over the years, thanks to the study of landscape and trees, this location has changed into an important didactic laboratory and an environmental education centre where guided tours, environmental activities, conferences, training days as well as art exhibitions are constantly organized. Thanks to its charming history, the Park has also become a symbol of the redevelopment of the territory and a very important example of renovation and restoration of a historical garden that had been found totally abandoned.