Name: Sacro Bosco (Park of the Monsters), Bomarzo
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1. Entrance to Parco dei Mostri – Parco dei Mostri di Bomarzo loop from Bomarzo

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2. Entrance to Parco dei Mostri – Parco dei Mostri di Bomarzo loop from Bomarzo

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Emiliano Manzan

July 8, 2022

The Sacro Bosco di Bomarzo is the oldest sculpture park in the modern world. It was conceived in the 16th century by the architect Pirro Ligorio on commission from Prince Pier Francesco Orsini, lord of Bomarzo. The Sacro Bosco is also known as the Monster Park for the presence of sculptures depicting mythological animals, divinities and monsters scattered in a surreal natural landscape.

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Giuze_ch

June 12, 2020

When you do the visit, it is difficult to imagine that the park is from the 16th century.

Park of the monsters - Sacred grove is the english translation.

When you visit it, you don't immagine that the park is from the 16th century.

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Norb

July 5, 2022

🗿🙃🗿 “Mom, there is a monster in our garden!” – “No, honey – there are dozens of them!” This is how one could imagine a dialogue between mother and child among the Orsinis. However, the marriage probably remained childless, so there was never a dialogue and Pier Francesco Orsini, scion of a well-known noble family, had to look for other options to burn money. In 1552 the time had come: over the next 30 years, volcanic peperin rock was transformed into sculptures the height of a man and a house, until the Sacro Bosco (Sacred Forest) was completed. After his death, the complex fell into oblivion and the now weathered sculptures were not rediscovered until the middle of the 20th century. Abandoned for centuries, the forest became popularly known as the Park of Monsters (Italian: Parco dei Mostri).

🏴‍☠️🤪🏴‍☠️ What Francesco Orsini intended with the Monster Park and what the characters are supposed to say is still a mystery. Maybe it's all just a game of deception; on the Ertruscan bench he had engraved: "Voi che pel mondo gite errando vaghi di veder meraviglie alte et stupende" - You who wander in the world, greedy for great and glorious wonders, come here...

👀🗿👀 So we look at the huge Proteus-Glauco from afar, get up close to the monumental sculpture of the fighting giants Hercules and Caco, puzzle over the female figure on a turtle and can assign Pegasus. I don't want to list all the sculptures that can be found north of the crooked house (Casa Pendente). I do want to mention one, however: the Orcus. A man's huge head petrified in a scream of terror. Through the gaping jaws of the Orcus, one enters a dark chamber where a table and a stone bench await the visitor. By the way, the sculpture always reminds me of the King Crimson album cover: “In The Court Of The Crimson King. images.app.goo.gl/X4bbcSPL42tR6cFf8

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Location: Bomarzo, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy

Sacro Bosco (Park of the Monsters), Bomarzo

1. Entrance to Parco dei Mostri – Parco dei Mostri di Bomarzo loop from Bomarzo

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