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The Compendium garden is a limited and well-defined portion of a larger area, of about 12 hectares, represented by the farm. Giuseppe Garibaldi bought land on the island of Caprera to spend the winter months there and build a house where he could move with his family. Starting at the end of 1855, work began on the arrangement of the land and the construction of a first living space (wooden house). Between 1855 and 1856, he began to prepare the area where he could build his family home (White House) and a first windmill. In the following years, Garibaldi alternated military life with working in the fields, creating irrigation and soil fertilization systems. He built a mill and a grain mill that he connected to the windmill. The iron house was built in 1861, intended as accommodation for guests, secretarial office and library. The construction of the stable, the warehouses, the drinking trough and the kennel had to take place after 1861. In the garden he planted numerous ornamental trees such as: pines, cypresses, poplars, willows, acacias. He dedicated himself personally to the care of the vegetable garden, olive groves, citrus groves and other crops. On the farm, there were more than 250 fruit plants: oranges, tangerines, lemons, pumpkins, peaches, pears, plums, cherries, quinces, carob trees, almond trees, plum trees, apricots, pomegranates, chestnuts, pistachios, date palms, prickly pears, sugar cane and mulberries. There were three vineyards, consisting of about 14,000 vines, including a nursery of 8,000 Zibibbo plants. He personally provided for their care and pruning. In 1880, new construction work began for the construction of a reception room, which later became the room where Garibaldi died on June 2, 1882. In 1886, the island of Caprera was expropriated and Garibaldi's tomb was declared a National Monument. The garden of the compendium, surrounded by outcropping granites and Mediterranean scrub, is located on an elevated point on the island of Caprera. It develops around and inside the residential nucleus. The green area is an example of a nineteenth-century agricultural and naturalistic garden, linked to the passion of its creator for agriculture and Mediterranean nature. It has a functional and, at the same time, aesthetic landscape design. It combines an agricultural cultivation area with a real garden area. Of the first, which in the past also included spaces intended for an orchard, vineyard, citrus grove and vegetable garden (some sporadic traces remain within the perimeter), today only the olive grove is accessible. The garden area consists of an access area consisting of an avenue of palm trees, hedges and regular flower beds, crosses the core of the houses, becoming an internal courtyard and housing the beautiful monumental pine planted by Garibaldi for the birth of his daughter Clelia and then surrounding the entire area with a vast area wooded with spontaneous Mediterranean vegetation. The spaces around the house are delimited by plastered walls and stone walkways. At the center of the garden, shaded by tall pine trees, is the cemetery area that houses the General's granite tomb and those of his third wife, Francesca Armosino, and their children Manlio, Clelia, Rosa, Anita and Teresita.
Interesting aspects
The garden designed and built personally by Garibaldi combines nature, history and technology. In addition to the trees planted by the general himself, there are artifacts and devices for a modern and rational management of the company and the home (mills, water system, oil mill, mill and other functional spaces, agricultural equipment). The Mediterranean vegetation, the sea view of the Maddalena archipelago and the intimate and personal dimension of Giuseppe Garibaldi are intimately linked without decorative devices but with a strong historical and symbolic value. The domestic pine, planted by Garibaldi in 1867 to celebrate the birth of his daughter Clelia, is a symbol of the family and of life that is renewed. The olive grove, symbol of passion, dedication and the desire to make an initially non-arable land fertile. The wells testify to Garibaldi's concrete commitment to irrigate and make apparently arid lands fertile, a symbol of integration and harmony between man and the environment.
Structure category: natural monument
Content type:
Giardino
Civil architecture
History
Usability: Open
Province: Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna
Common: La Maddalena
Macro Territorial Area: Nord Sardegna
POSTAL CODE: 07024
Address: Strada Comunale La Maddaalena - Caprera
Telephone: +39 070 34281 +39 0789 727162 +39 0789 726015
E-mail: drm-sar.museigaribaldi.caprera@cultura.gov.it
Website: www.garibaldicaprera.beniculturali.it/i-musei-garibaldini/compendio_garibaldino
Information on tickets and access: For always updated information on visiting hours and ticket costs, we recommend that you consult the dedicated website of the MiC - Regional Directorate of Museums of Sardinia.
Access mode: For a fee
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