Orto Botanico di Napoli
Nineteenth-century royal garden of terraces, greenhouses and specimen trees split between two architects' plans.
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This guide to Orto Botanico di Napoli walks through why nobody quite agrees on the garden's own size, a mismatch between fifteen and twelve hectares that has stood since the eighteen hundreds. It traces the garden's stalled beginnings, from Ferdinand the Fourth's abandoned 1799 dream through Giuseppe Bonaparte's 1807 founding decree to the 1810 land grants carved out of church and hospital property. You'll hear how two architects, Giuliano de Fazio and Gaspare Maria Paoletti, split the ground between them and shaped it on two different grids. Look for the seam between their two plans as you walk it today.
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