Venaria Reale and Celle Farm Park are the most beautiful parks in Italy in 2019

The names of the winners of the Most Beautiful Park in Italy contest for the 2019 edition have been made official: this is the contest, promoted by the network ilparcopiubello.it, which each year awards the two parks or gardens deemed most beautiful in Italy, divided into the two categories of public parks and private parks. The 2019 winners turned out to be the Venaria Reale Gardens for the “public parks” category and the Celle Farm in the “private parks” section.

The Venaria Reale Gardens are part of the Reggia di Venaria Reale complex on the outskirts of Turin, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with the other residences of the Savoy family. The gardens constitute a marriage of ancient and modern and a dialogue between archaeological settlements and contemporary works, since they are home to, for example, Giuseppe Penone’s Garden of Fluid Sculptures, the Potager Royal, the Grand Parterre designed by Filippo Juvarra, and many other areas of great value. The gardens can be visited through guided tours with educational itineraries, but also by unusual means such as the “Diana’s Arrow” train, gondola or horse-drawn carriage. The gardens are also the venue for shows, events, concerts and exhibitions every year.

The Celle Farm Park, on the other hand, is located in the hills of Santomato (Pistoia), on top of a hill whose view extends from the city of Florence to the towers of nearby Serravalle Pistoiese. The park houses a fine collection of environmental art (among the largest in the world) desired by the Gori family, owners of the place, with the intention of experimenting with a new kind of participation in contemporary creativity, which necessarily passes through respect for nature. There are about eighty works of art that the Park preserves (notable are achievements by Enrico Castellani, Anselm Kiefer, Sol Lewitt, Joseph Kosuth, Emilio Vedova, Richard Long, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Mauro Staccioli, Penck, Beverly Pepper, Loris Cecchini, Daniel Buren, and Stefano Arienti). In addition, the Gori Collection aims to position itself as an interdisciplinary laboratory of the arts in an environment that manages to fuse art and nature together. Born without reference models, today the Fattoria di Celle Park has become an example for other realities both in Italy and abroad.

Pictured: a work by Daniel Buren at Celle Farm Park.

Venaria Reale and Celle Farm Park are the most beautiful parks in Italy in 2019

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