The Gardens of Villa della Pergola in Alassio, on the tenth anniversary of their opening, celebrate the important anniversary full of satisfactions.
In the year they were awarded as the most beautiful park in Italy, they greet visitors with the last weekend of visits and an extraordinary opening before the winter break.
The Gardens of Villa della Pergola have turned ten years old, with a ten-year season full of satisfactions and spectacular blooms. A season that will close with the extraordinary openings of Monday 31 October and Tuesday 1 November, to greet our visitors before the winter break.
The Gardens of Villa della Pergola were opened to the public exactly ten years ago, on May 5, 2012, with an event organized in collaboration with the FAI which saw the participation of over ten thousand visitors in just two days. Just this year, on the tenth anniversary, the Gardens won the XVIII edition of the Competition "The most beautiful park in Italy" in the Private Park category, a prestigious initiative promoted by the network "The most beautiful park", with the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of the Environment, UNESCO, ACI and with the adhesion of the FAI (Italian Environment Fund), and AIAPP (Italian Association of Landscape Architecture), in which over a thousand gardens participate in all of Italy, also returning to be able to be visited in March, allowing you to admire the Glicini collection live after two years of “virtual” visits due to the pandemic.
The guided tours dedicated to the most important collection in Italy, with 34 different varieties, saw an enthusiastic participation and with record attendance numbers. Enthusiasm that was constant throughout the year, especially during the flowering period of the agapanthus, which transforms Alassio into the European capital of the Agapanti every year.
The largest collection in Europe in terms of vastness and variety, with more than 500 different types (all certified by SOI, the Italian Horticultural Society) and thousands of specimens, this year gave an early and spectacular flowering, as they did not remember. for years.
The flowering that, thanks to the thousands of individual specimens, creates a unique scenography, which with brushstrokes rich in color blends into a thousand shades of blue and draws for colors and vastness a sea that recalls the Ligurian Sea on which the Park overlooks, accompanied visitors until August, when it left the stage to the other thousands of flowers and plants that can be admired during the visits.
In particular, during the month of August and September, the flowering of lotuses, hibiscus, the collection of roses, some dating back to the eighteenth century, or the collection of citrus fruits with rare and curious specimens have enchanted visitors. The collection of cacti and opuntie with rare specimens and fascinating shapes, such as the myrtillocactus, or rare plants such as the prehistoric Wollemia Nobilis, present in nature in less than a hundred specimens, are other protagonists of the Gardens that make them unique and spectacular. Here every season and every month the specimens of plants and flowers that inhabit the park offer different shows, with colors, blooms, foliage and suggestive scenarios.
The Park lives, and at each visit it can be found in a new guise thanks to the hand of the most long-lived and prolific artist: nature.
The "virtual" part of the Gardens also spent a season with record numbers: the Facebook and Instagram pages @giardinivillapergola achieved record numbers both in terms of unique views and audience expansion, confirming the enthusiasm that exists around the Giardini of Villa della Pergola.
Symbol of the resilience of nature and greenery against concrete and the changes it implies to the landscape and the territory, the Gardens have been over the years one of the symbols of the city, integrating the tourist offer of Alassio, thus helping to make the city always plus a symbol and a green destination.
For the great interest in the Gardens, the city institutions are also to be thanked, which over the years have always understood the importance of this green lung in the heart of Alassio, a rare and precious resource for the whole territory.
After the winter break, the Gardens will reopen in the spring with the aim of helping to implement more and more stimuli for visitors and consequently the tourist offer of Alassio and the territory, with initiatives and events dedicated to the green of which the Giardini di VIlla della Pergola will become spokespersons.