Park
Parco della Chiusa
Hillside park built around a ruined eighteenth-century villa and an ancient working river weir.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Parco della Chiusa in Bologna returns you to the grounds of a lost eighteenth-century villa, once home to the grand Sampieri family, who filled its English-style garden with follies: a temple to Flora, a fake hermit's cottage, an artificial bear's den, a Chinese pavilion. You'll hear how Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti performed here, and how the writer Stendhal kept returning, likening the grounds to Bologna's own Bois de Boulogne. Downhill, a stone weir older than the villa still marks the river that made these hills worth building on in the first place.
This audio guide was created using AI.