Father Reed visits the Vatican Gardens. CatholicTV Vatican Gardens Father Reed and a crew from the CatholicTV Network made their way around Rome and the Vatican to create this new series entitled "…More
Father Reed visits the Vatican Gardens.
CatholicTV Vatican Gardens Father Reed and a crew from the CatholicTV Network made their way around Rome and the Vatican to create this new series entitled "Viaggio a Roma" - or - a trip to Rome. This is exactly what this new series is, a trip around one of the greatest cities of the world to see and experience some of the most significant sites in ancient and Christian Roma.
CatholicTV Vatican Gardens Father Reed and a crew from the CatholicTV Network made their way around Rome and the Vatican to create this new series entitled "Viaggio a Roma" - or - a trip to Rome. This is exactly what this new series is, a trip around one of the greatest cities of the world to see and experience some of the most significant sites in ancient and Christian Roma.
Father Reed visits the Vatican Gardens
The Vatican Gardens (Italian: Giardini Vaticani) in Vatican City are urban gardens and parks which cover more than half of the Vatican territory in the South and Northeast. There are some buildings such as Radio Vatican within the gardens.
The gardens cover approximately 23 hectares (57acres) which is most of the Vatican Hill. The highest point is 60 metres …More
Father Reed visits the Vatican Gardens
The Vatican Gardens (Italian: Giardini Vaticani) in Vatican City are urban gardens and parks which cover more than half of the Vatican territory in the South and Northeast. There are some buildings such as Radio Vatican within the gardens.
The gardens cover approximately 23 hectares (57acres) which is most of the Vatican Hill. The highest point is 60 metres (200ft) above mean sea level. Stone walls bound the area in the North, South and West.
The gardens and parks were established during the Renaissance and Baroque era and are decorated with fountains and sculptures. There are several springs under the earth which as of 2009 are not in use. There is a wide variety of flora, and the area is considered a biotope.
History
Tradition says that the site of the Vatican Gardens was spread with earth brought from Golgotha by Saint Helena[2][3] to symbolically unite the blood of Christ with that shed by thousands of early Christians, who died in the persecutions of Nero.[2] The gardens date back to medieval times when orchards and vineyards extended to the north of the Papal Apostolic Palace.[4] In 1279 Pope Nicholas III (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, 1277–1280) moved his residence back to the Vatican from the Lateran Palace and enclosed this area with walls.[5] He planted an orchard (pomerium), a lawn (pratellum) and a garden (viridarium).[5]
The site received a major re-landscaping at the beginning of the 16th century,[4] during the papacy of Julius II.[6] Donato Bramante's original design was then split into three new courtyards,[6] the Cortili del Belvedere, the “della Biblioteca” and the “della Pigna” (or Pine Cone)[4][6] in the Renaissance landscape design style. Also in Renaissance style, a great rectangular Labyrinth, formal in design, set in boxwood and framed with Italian stone pines, (Pinus pinea) and cedars of Lebanon, (Cedrus libani).[2] In place of Nicholas III's enclosure, Bramante built a great rectilinear defensive wall.[6]
Today's Vatican Gardens are spread over nearly 23 hectares (57acres), they contain a variety of medieval fortifications, buildings and monuments from the 9th century to the present day, set amongst vibrant flower beds and topiary, green lawns and a 3 hectares (7.4acres) patch of forest. There are a variety of fountains spreading freshness over the gardens, while sculpture and artificial grottoes proclaim devotion to the Madonna, and an olive tree donated by the government of Israel, extends its three verdant branches.
Notes
^ "Map of Vatican City". www.saintpetersbasilica.org. www.saintpetersbasilica.org/vaticancity-map.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-11.
^ a b c "MO Plants: Vatican Gardens". © 2006 MoPlants.com. www.moplants.com/archives/vatican_gardens.php. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
^ Patron saint of archaeologists
^ a b c "Al Pellegrino Cattolico: The Vatican Gardens". © 2008 Al Pellegrino Cattolico s.r.l. Via di Porta Angelica 81\83 (S.Pietro) I- 00193 Roma, Italy. www.pellegrinocattolico.com/ctv/gardens.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
^ a b "Official Vatican City State Website: A Visit to the Vatican Gardens". © 2007-08 Uffici di Presidenza S.C.V.. www.vaticanstate.va/…/The_Vatican_Gar…. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
^ a b c d "Vatican Gardens". © 2008 Cooperativa IL SOGNO, Viale Regina Margherita, 192 - 00198 ROMA. www.romeguide.it/VATICANO/gardens1/gardens.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
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The Vatican Gardens (Italian: Giardini Vaticani) in Vatican City are urban gardens and parks which cover more than half of the Vatican territory in the South and Northeast. There are some buildings such as Radio Vatican within the gardens.
The gardens cover approximately 23 hectares (57acres) which is most of the Vatican Hill. The highest point is 60 metres (200ft) above mean sea level. Stone walls bound the area in the North, South and West.
The gardens and parks were established during the Renaissance and Baroque era and are decorated with fountains and sculptures. There are several springs under the earth which as of 2009 are not in use. There is a wide variety of flora, and the area is considered a biotope.
History
Tradition says that the site of the Vatican Gardens was spread with earth brought from Golgotha by Saint Helena[2][3] to symbolically unite the blood of Christ with that shed by thousands of early Christians, who died in the persecutions of Nero.[2] The gardens date back to medieval times when orchards and vineyards extended to the north of the Papal Apostolic Palace.[4] In 1279 Pope Nicholas III (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, 1277–1280) moved his residence back to the Vatican from the Lateran Palace and enclosed this area with walls.[5] He planted an orchard (pomerium), a lawn (pratellum) and a garden (viridarium).[5]
The site received a major re-landscaping at the beginning of the 16th century,[4] during the papacy of Julius II.[6] Donato Bramante's original design was then split into three new courtyards,[6] the Cortili del Belvedere, the “della Biblioteca” and the “della Pigna” (or Pine Cone)[4][6] in the Renaissance landscape design style. Also in Renaissance style, a great rectangular Labyrinth, formal in design, set in boxwood and framed with Italian stone pines, (Pinus pinea) and cedars of Lebanon, (Cedrus libani).[2] In place of Nicholas III's enclosure, Bramante built a great rectilinear defensive wall.[6]
Today's Vatican Gardens are spread over nearly 23 hectares (57acres), they contain a variety of medieval fortifications, buildings and monuments from the 9th century to the present day, set amongst vibrant flower beds and topiary, green lawns and a 3 hectares (7.4acres) patch of forest. There are a variety of fountains spreading freshness over the gardens, while sculpture and artificial grottoes proclaim devotion to the Madonna, and an olive tree donated by the government of Israel, extends its three verdant branches.
Notes
^ "Map of Vatican City". www.saintpetersbasilica.org. www.saintpetersbasilica.org/vaticancity-map.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-11.
^ a b c "MO Plants: Vatican Gardens". © 2006 MoPlants.com. www.moplants.com/archives/vatican_gardens.php. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
^ Patron saint of archaeologists
^ a b c "Al Pellegrino Cattolico: The Vatican Gardens". © 2008 Al Pellegrino Cattolico s.r.l. Via di Porta Angelica 81\83 (S.Pietro) I- 00193 Roma, Italy. www.pellegrinocattolico.com/ctv/gardens.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
^ a b "Official Vatican City State Website: A Visit to the Vatican Gardens". © 2007-08 Uffici di Presidenza S.C.V.. www.vaticanstate.va/…/The_Vatican_Gar…. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
^ a b c d "Vatican Gardens". © 2008 Cooperativa IL SOGNO, Viale Regina Margherita, 192 - 00198 ROMA. www.romeguide.it/VATICANO/gardens1/gardens.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gardens of Vatican City
www.vaticanstate.va/…/The_Vatican_Gar…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_of_Vatican_City