Park
Giardini Margherita
English-style park with a boating lake, shaded paths and lawns hiding an ancient burial ground.
Location
About this audio guide
The guide to Giardini Margherita in Bologna starts with Rivaldoni and Company's rental boats, gliding courting couples and Sunday strollers across the park's lake from eighteen eighty-two onward. It traces what the ground beneath this English-style park held before it was a garden at all, uncovered by the archaeologist Antonio Zannoni's crews, and follows the lake's shift from leisure to something darker in nineteen-oh-two. The park itself was laid out in the English style by a Piedmontese count who had already shaped Turin's own great park.
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