Gardens of the World

This collection of short programs immerses us in the poetical world of gardens. Classical, astonishing, near-to-hand or on the other side of the world, these little corners of paradise are positively bursting with grace and charm. The gardens in question can be nominally divided into four groups — historical, artistic, botanical and contemporary.

Playwright and novelist Vicente Blasco-Ibañez created the garden Fontana Rosa in 1921. It is ornamented with Spanish style tiled elements, and dedicated to the great authors’ memory. This “Writers’ Garden” has been classified as a protected monument in 1990. It is designed as a reading space, honouring the creator’s favourite writers: Flaubert, Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky and Cervantes. This charming site, where grand ficus and palm trees thrive next to tiled benches, pergolas, basins and columns, is being restored today.

The Spain itself is popular for the Cactus Garden situated in Lanzarote. This spectacular botanical garden shelters about 10,000 types of cactus from more than 1,400 distinct species originating from America, Madagascar and the Canaries. The Cactus Garden is an excellent example ofhow to recover a deteriorated space because it was built on an old quarry ofvolcanic ashes extraction, also known as “rofe” or “picón” and used by the peasants of Lanzarote to cover the crops and keep the night humidity.

The garden in the valley near the castle of Italian town Bomarzo is called “The Park of the Monsters”. The park is filed with bizarre and fascinating sculptures for which only the accompanying inscriptions provide any explanation. Among the pieces are a war elephant, a monstrous fish-head, a giant tearing another giant in half, and a house built on a tilt to disorient the viewer. Perhaps the most frightening piece in the garden is an enormous head, mouth opened wide in a scream.

These bright short episodes about the most amazing gardens and parks of the world is a very beautiful and enjoyable video content that broadens a viewer’s outlook and could be considered as a win-win variant of fillers.