TOUR E VISITE GUIDATE IN TUSCIA
VISIT THE SACRED WOOD OF BOMARZO AND ITS DISTRICT
The price for group guided tours is €3.50 and up per person.
Discover the extraordinary secrets of “The Monsters’ Park” in Bomarzo with our professional and selected tour guides. We create tailor made tours based on your group’s needs.
GASTRONOMY IN BOMARZO
These are our groups’ proposals for a lovely lunch or food tasting in Bomarzo: Agritusimo located in the area of Bomarzo and Cimini Mountains. An immersion into the Tuscia gastronomy before or after a visit to the Monsters’ Park of Bomarzo.
The price is €15.00 and up per person.
ITINERARY
BOMARZO’S WOOD
A unique work, the Magnificence villa, or better known as the Sacred wood, often called The Monsters’ Park.
Bomarzo’s wood was designed by the architect and antiquary Pirro Ligorio at the behest of Prince Pier Francesco Orsini in 1547. It is not known the purpose and the universal interpretation of the garden. It has been hypothesized that it could be an attempt to represent the Greek, Jewish and Christian culture. Another reason, much more romantic, that prompted Orsini to realize this marvelous garden, is the death of his wife. The park, in fact, is also conceived to embrace her memory, and to offer the Lord of Bomarzo a place to vent his pain for his loss. However, the mysterious inscriptions marking the attractions, make it difficult to give a certain answer.
The park is structured on four levels, and gets smaller towards the summit of the hill, where the pyramid is located. The itinerary that leads to the top of the temple is full of mysterious and impressive sculptures; these (some certainly realized by Simone Moschino) were directly carved into huge blocks of rock, which are found everywhere in the valley. The grotesque type is represented by mythological figures, gigantic animals, Homeric heroes or simple sirens or Roman goddesses. There are also the so called impossible architectures, such as the leaning house, or some enigmatic statues that perhaps represent the stages of an alchemical route.
Certainly Bomarzo’s wood is one of a kind, a site to lose oneself into fascinating atmospheres, beyond our intellect.