It was a beauitful day so we decided to visit one of the parks we had driven by on our bus tour of the city. On the way he again found many an interesting and pretty colonade.
The entrance to Giardini Margherita. The park is the largest and most popular city park in Bologna. It was designed by Piemontese Sambuy to provide Bologna with an ample green public place as in other Italian and European cities. It was opened in 1879 with the name of "Passeggio Regina Margherita" ( as a tribute to the wife of King Umberto I).
The garden, with its surface of 64 acres, largely maintains the original design; it is vaguely inspired by the English romantic parks; big tree-lined avenues, a little lake surrounded by artifical gypsum cliffs, wide lawns. oak groves and other more natural edges, a series of considerable sample trees, mainly exotics (cedar, pines, horse chestnuts, sycamore, bald cypresses, some English oaks , ane a sequoia.
We saw so many turtles in and out of the water swimming and sunning.
There's a lovely little restaurant overlooking the lake and we stopped there to have a little lunch and enjoy the lake and watch the mallards as they were trying to impress the lone female.
I was going to climb just a bit higher and sit in the tree on the branch to the right but decided - maybe not!
The statue of Victor Emanuel II. Full name - Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso. Now you know whom I'm talking about - ha. In case you've forgotten, he assumed the title of King of Italy and became the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878. The Italians gave him the epithet Father of the Fatherland.
Walking back from the park we came upon this piazza. The sculpture was quite impressive. Carducci was an Italian poet and teacher. He was regarded as the national poet of modern Italy. In 1906 he became the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature " noy only in consideration of his deep learning and critical research, but above all as a tribute to the creative energy, freshness of style, and lyrical force which characterizess his poetic masterpieces."
The G. Carducci Memorial Garden with the grand "Carducci Monument" in Carrara marble made by Leonardo Bistolfi in 1928.
Just continuing our stroll back and enjoy8ing the weather and the scenery.
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