For the series “In the shade of gardens, in Italy and abroad”: A lecture by Dr. Ada V. Segre, Technion.
Surrounded by hills, Lucca’s villas are country palaces built by rich local merchants between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Century.
The abundance of water and the mildness of the climate, also during winter time, encouraged the development of a horticultural heritage of exotic plants, including a rich variety of potted citruses, camellias and hydrangeas.
The most famous is Villa Reale di Marlia, former residence of Elisa Baciocchi, sister of Napoleon I and ruler of Lucca and Tuscany, where one can admire an Italian garden and an English park, featuring a lake. Also typical of the Lucchesia are Villa Mansi of Segromigno in Monte, Villa Torrigiani Colonna in Camigliano and Villa Bernardini in Lucca, all to be introduced during this lecture.
Event held in Hebrew, with slides in Italian.
Refreshments from 18:15.
Ada V. Segre, garden historian and conservator, studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at the University of Bologna (Italy) and at the University of York (UK).
She was involved in the restoration of the Secret Gardens at Villa Borghese in Rome, the garden of the Doria-Pamphilj Palace in Genua, the Este Delizia of the Verginese near Ferrara, the garden of Poggio Torselli in S. Casciano near Florence and the Garzoni Garden in Collodi. She taught at the University of Bologna, at the New York University in Florence, and is currently teaching at the Technion and at the Wizo College in Haifa. She published numerous papers and two books on the history of landscape architecture. At present she is the historic garden conservation consultant for the City of Tel Aviv and for the Weizmann Institute of Tel Aviv.
Mםמגשט, April 23th 2018, at 18:30
Italian Cultural Institute, Rehov Meir Rutberg 12, Haifa
Refreshments from 18:15.
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