_{Visit to the Ciucioi Garden}

An incredible nineteenth-century vertical garden, waiting to be discovered!

The Ciucioi Garden, also known as the Bortolotti Garden, is a unique hanging garden, where an intermingling of ruins and vegetation creates an atmosphere where dream merges with reality.

This original architectural work was inspired by the dream of a visionary late nineteenth-century entrepreneur, Tommaso Bortolotti. An example of romantic architecture, its objective was to create a fantastic, picturesque landscape, a highly unusual monumental edifice laid out on a series of terraces enclosed by whimsical architectural structures and connected by ramps, which reveals the influence of the eclectic tastes that prevailed in the first half of the nineteenth century. 

Accompanied by an expert guide, you can make the intriguing, evocative ascent from terrace to terrace, discovering on the way a lemon-scented greenhouse, the loggia, an ingenious heating and irrigation system and other curious constructions such as churches, castles and grottoes.