Historical and Botanical Xviii Century Garden

Owned by the Leali  family for 4 centuries (which came from Brescia in the early 1600s to help the Farnese family with ironworks), the garden with a botanical implant from 1790 with many rare trees (33 species): Sequoia sempervirens, Magnolia Grandiflora, Cedrus deodaore, Taxus baccata, Ilex aquifolium, Abiespectinata, Thuja gigantea and gigantic specimens of Mediterranean flora, 200-year-old strawberry trees, Roman pines, giant holly, it populates in March of violets and daffodils of everlive myths, of wild strawberries and orchids in May, of mushrooms in autumn. 

There are many edible plants, medicinal herbs you can discover with us, plants for homeopathic remedies like Sequoia and Thuja. 

In 1920 it was purchased by Ulysses Igliori who donated it in 1929 to his wife Lina, an extraordinary and visionary woman surrounded and loved by artists, poets and scholars at home in "Villa Lina" over the generations: D’Annunzio, Trilussa, Donghi in the 30s-60’s ... ...) In the following generation Art historians Federico Zeri, Mina Gregori with Massimo Igliori, from the 80s-90s until today artists, poets and innovators with Paola Igliori, the current curator, from Sandro Chia to Jean Michel Basquiat , Giulio Bollati to Andy Warhol. 

Together Lina and Ulisse commissioned for the creation of the garden the architect Raffaele de Vico, a man of great classical culture and also of great knowledge of the inner language of things and true poet of gardens, who united art and nature to create, on the botanical 18th century implant, an extraordinary garden that can be read at multiple levels.

Symbolic Garden 

Created in the 1920s on the eighteenth-century layout, by the architect De Vico (a Rosicrucian) in the tradition of Tuscia (Near Orsini: Bomarzo) An "Italian" garden with a live symbolism that you can read on multiple levels. It is accessed through 2 authentic columns of ancient Egyptian temple of pink granite from Aswan (3500 years old?)  

Created by the architect De Vico in 1920, as a temple of nature, of the 2 energies from which all creation arises: male and female, yin and yang. 

Receptive and creative.

The garden as a body: on the right the fountain of the waterfalls; the feminine. The water that flows from the cave filling the three shells like the infinite abundance of nature fills our three bodies, physical, mental and spiritual.

Receptive, Fertility, birth, DNA.

Further on, the masculine: 
the fountain of the amphora that gushes surrounded by a phallic circle of cypresses that mark the key points in the circle of the seasons. 

Past the 2 columns of the ancient Egyptian temple, a labyrinth on the left, and in front instead of a perspective a green wall, high laurel hedge (metaphors of our creative mind? There are no highways to knowledge!) which shields the secret message of the Oroboros black snake of Eternal regeneration, which is revealed only when, the receptive and the creative, the female and the male, finally in balance, dance together in front of the empty stage where the observer and the observed meet in the center of this initiatory path.

We forget that the creative mind creates our reality constantly either with our fears and limits or with conscious vision and action.

Like the snake regenerates a totally new skin , we completely regenerate each one of our cell, but being creatures of habit we forget that we are infinite and with infinite creative power and become as finite as our conventions, our fears, our armours.

So the snake gives us this message of total regeneration and like its poison also becomes the antidote it also reminds us to transform all the suffering, the poison from our life and also from the genetic baggage into medicine for ourselves and others