Venice, Borges Labyrinth opens to the public for the first time on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

Open for the first time to the public as of June 11, 2021, the Borges Labyrinth in Venice. On the occasion of ten years since its creation, thirty-five years since the death of Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, and seventy years of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, to which the Labyrinth belongs, it is now accessible and can be visited through guided tours curated by the D’Uva Society of Florence.

The garden-labyrinth was designed by architect Randle Coate in honor of the famous writer and is located on theIsland of San Giorgio Maggiore. It was reconstructed in 2011 by the Giorgio Cini Foundation from the design on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Borges’ death and in collaboration with the Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges. It contains more than three thousand boxwood plants and is designed as a physical space that provides access to the Argentine’s fantastic world.

The walk through Borges’s Labyrinth is accompanied by Antonio Fresa’s evocative music, performed on record with the Teatro La Fenice Orchestra: a suite of more than fifteen minutes, entitled Walking the Labyrinth, will play in the background of the multilingual audio guides.

The Labyrinth can be visited daily, excluding Wednesdays. For reservations visitcini.com

Image: Borges Labyrinth. Ph.Credit Matteo De Fina

Venice, Borges Labyrinth opens to the public for the first time on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

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