The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle

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European and Asian Garden Design
The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle
An Enchanting World of Gardens on the Sunny Side
of the Alps
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Art and Nature
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Trauttmansdorff Castle and the Touriseum
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Sissi – Empress Elisabeth of Austria 17
From Visionary Idea to Completion of an Extraordinary
Project18
Trauttmansdorff Today 20
Botany and Adventure
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Walking Circuits Through the Four Garden Worlds
Forests of the World Walking Circuit
Panoramic Trail to Palm Beach
The Sun Gardens Walking Circuit
Panoramic Trail to the Aviary
Landscapes of South Tyrol Walking Circuit Panoramic Trail to Matteo Thun’s Viewing Platform
The Water and Terraced Gardens Walking Circuit
Blooming Highlights
Spring
Summer
– Balmy Summer Evenings at Trauttmansdorff Autumn
A Botanical Journey Around the World
Exotic and Native Landscapes in Miniature
Mediterranean Natural Landscapes
Mediterranean Cultivated Landscapes
Natural Landscapes of North America
Natural Landscapes of East Asia
Cultivated Landscapes of East Asia
Natural Landscapes of South Tyrol Cultivated Landscapes of South Tyrol
A Variety of Theme Gardens
Bamboo Forest
The Fern Glen and Its Living Fossils
Flowering Clay Wall
The Forbidden Garden
Succulents from the Semidesert
Sense Garden
Palm Grove
Water Lily Pond
Rose Garden
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Italian Garden
English Perennial Garden
Japanese Garden
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An Adventure for One and All
The Grotto’s Origins of Life Multimedia Show
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Time Gear
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Matteo Thun’s Viewing Platform 150
Sounding Stones and Water Bell 152
Adventure Bridge 153
Geological Mosaic 154
The Innsbruck Alpenzoo Showcase 156
Aviary158
Dragonfly Clock
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Hungarian Racka Sheep 164
West African Dwarf Goats 165
Beehive166
Artist Pavilions
Ornamental Plants from Around the Globe
Deciduous Forests Scent Organ Plants from Regions with Mediterranean Climates
Downy Oak Forests
Succulent Plants
Water Plants Cultivated Landscapes Displacing Natural Landscapes
Plants in Spring
Plants in Fall
Sissi in Trauttmansdorff
Empress Elisabeth – In Noble Footsteps
Sissi’s Rooms at the Touriseum
Sissi Terrace Sissi Promenade
Touriseum
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The Only Museum of Tourism in the Alps
South Tyrol Pinball Machine
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Appendix: Your Visit to Trauttmansdorff
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Index
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The Gardens of
Trauttmansdorff Castle
An Enchanting World of Gardens on the Sunny Side
of the Alps
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Art and Nature
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Trauttmansdorff Castle and the Touriseum
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Sissi – Empress Elisabeth of Austria 17
From Visionary Idea to Completion of an Extraordinary
Project18
Trauttmansdorff Today 20
Botany and Adventure
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The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle
Art and Nature
Ten Artist Pavilions distributed throughout the gardens interpret botanical themes through art. In addition, Trauttmansdorff features a
number of fascinating Experience Stations: the Viewing Platform,
which was designed by South Tyrolean architect Matteo Thun, the
Aviary, a multimedia show about the origin of life in the Grotto, and
the Adventure Bridge, to name a few. A wide range of animals adds a
whole other dimension while musical and culinary events round out
the experience: enjoy world music at its finest at the Garden Nights
series, indulge in a relaxed Breakfast at Sissi’s, or linger on a summer
evening for one of our other events.
Italy’s Most Beautiful
Garden
Trauttmansdorff won the title of
Italy’s Most Beautiful Garden in
2005 for its effective fusion of art
and nature and its innovative spirit.
Just one year later, Trauttmansdorff
earned the honour of being listed
as one of Europe’s top gardens,
ranked number six.
Pavilion: Succulent Plants
Walking Circuits Through the Four Garden Worlds
Panoramic Trail to Palm Beach 15 min
The Sun Gardens Walking Circuit15 min
The panoramic trail to Palm Beach begins above Trauttmansdorff Castle and
leads past an escarpment that is truly one of a kind: thousands of flowering
plants thrive on the nearly vertical Flowering Clay Wall. The winding path,
flanked by hydrangeas that bloom in midsummer, passes the picnic area. The
route takes visitors to Palm Beach, where tropical dreams come true, with
palms planted here every May. A unique panorama awaits, with stunning
views of the mountain ranges surrounding Merano.
The walking circuit begins at the terrace of the Schlossgarten Restaurant, and
leads past the Flowering Meadow, where a variety of plants bloom throughout
the garden season. A detour to the Sissi Terrace and the Forbidden Garden
concealed behind it, with its bizarre sculptures and poisonous plants, is definitely worth the time. In June, the violet hues of the lavender field below the
castle transport visitors to Provence.
Mediterranean cultivated plants like olive trees, grapevines, fig trees, lavender
and a gnarled, 700-year-old olive tree paint an unmistakeable portrait of the
South. Italy’s northernmost olive grove is home to thousands of sunflowers
that bloom in summer. Citruses fill the Limonaia with their sweet smell during
their main period of blooming in April. Cacti, Euphorbia, aloe and agave can
be found beyond, opposite the walking circuit.
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Blooming Highlights
Blooming Highlights
Spring
The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle burst into bloom in spring:
thousands of tulips, daffodils, crown imperial, buttercups, forget-menots and Iceland poppies shine, forming colourful carpets of flowers
that greet visitors as they stroll through the twelve-hectare grounds of
the gardens. Exotic camellias, ornamental Japanese cherry blossoms,
lush rhododendrons and elegant peonies form showy, eye-catching
plantings throughout the gardens, together with other flowering
shrubs and resplendent flowering trees. The season brings a delightful contrast between the delicate and nuanced colour of the young
shoots and the dark green foliage of evergreen exotics.
Tip: Guided Tours You decide which part of the
gardens you want to get to know
best during the 90-minute private
exploration led by your own personal tour guide. Tours are available
in German, Italian, English and
Spanish. Group, themed and family
tours are also available. For more
information and rates, please go to
www.trauttmansdorff.it
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Blooming Highlights
Summer
Summer is a time of abundance
at Trauttmansdorff: vibrant flower beds, fragrant English roses, and exotic Mediterranean
plants such as oleander and silk
acacia give a colourful show. In
June, lavender bushes cut in
spherical shapes bloom below
the castle. Immediately adjacent is the flowering meadow,
where thousands of summerblooming perennials vie for attention. The blooms of the water lilies and exotic lotus flowers
grace the Water Lily Pond with
their beauty for most of the
summer. Visitors will find flowering shrubs and trees in The
Water and Terraced Gardens
even in high summer, the richly
coloured Crape myrtle and the
fragrant glory tree among them.
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Blooming Highlights
Balmy Summer Evenings at
Trauttmansdorff
The evening sun bathes the gardens in a special light, intensifying the
enchanting aromas of many plants. The atmosphere of the gardens is
especially magical during the Garden Nights concert series, whether
sitting in the stands along the Water Lily Pond, walking along the paths
near the castle, having a cocktail at the Palm Café, or perched up high
on the terrace of the restaurant.
Tip: Garden Nights
The Water Lily Pond provides the
setting for Trauttmansdorff’s Garden
Nights series every summer. This
open-air concert series is the most
renowned festival of world music in
northern Italy. Music groups from all
over the globe have appeared every
summer on the Pond Stage floating
in the centre of the Water Lily Pond.
Trauttmansdorff’s natural amphitheatre
shape and the variety of its botanical
life make for a truly magical atmosphere. (For concert programming, please
go to www.trauttmansdorff.it)
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Blooming Highlights
Autumn
The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle light up for the last time of
the season during the sunny days of autumn: rich evergreens and lush
perennial flowerbeds make the gardens more than worthy of a visit
at this time of year. Purple and blue autumn asters unfold their flowers in The Water and Terraced Gardens, while Mediterranean fruits
such as pomegranates, figs, olives and grapes form an unmistakable
portrait of the South in The Sun Gardens. Forests of the World shines
in warm autumn colours ranging from yellow to orange to deep red,
especially in forests that model those of the Americas and Asia. Even
in late autumn, Trauttmansdorff has blooms to offer, from the elegant fall camellias of Palm Grove to the lush strawberry trees in the
garden’s natural Mediterranean landscapes.
Tip: Gardens & Wine
Experience Package
Tours to the Versoaln grapevine at
Katzenzungen Castle in Prissiano
take place every Thursday in August, September and October. The
excursions are part of the Gardens
& Wine Experience Package and
include a wine tasting. The package includes a tour of The Gardens
of Trauttmansdorff Castle. Wine-themed attractions include a golden replica of a 7,000-year-old grape seed,
a gift from Georgia, and 2,400-yearold grape seeds excavated in South
Tyrol. For more information, see our
website: www.trauttmansdorff.it.
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A Botanical Journey Around the World
A Botanical Journey Around the World
Exotic and Native Landscapes in
Miniature
The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle, which were created from
scratch in 1994, present natural and cultivated landscapes of North
America, Eastern Asia, the Mediterranean, and South Tyrol on a small
scale: this is one of the features that sets these gardens apart from
other botanical gardens. Archetypal trees and shrubs are planted in a
way that reflects their natural plant community as closely as possible.
Trauttmansdorff places a great deal of importance on the connections
between natural vegetation, climate, location, and the intrusion of
mankind. Natural landscapes like a North American summergreen deciduous forest can be found side-by-side with cultivated landscapes
like a rice terrace and an Asian tea plantation.
Merano’s climatic conditions are especially favourable. In winter, temperatures rarely drop below -10° C; when they do so, it is usually only for a short
period of time. Temperatures below -15° C are extremely rare. The Merano
Basin and Adige Valley have the mildest winter climate in German-speaking
Europe. In addition, the region’s warm autumns allow the new wood to mature completely and survive the cold season better. Even evergreen trees and
shrubs of Mediterranean sclerophyllous forests and subtropical laurel forests
can thrive out-of-doors here, together with a variety of hardy summergreen
trees and shrubs.
Useful Plants from the Mediterranean
South Tyrolean Cottage Garden
North American Deciduous Forest
The Northernmost Olive Grove in Italy South Tyrolean Vineyard
Asian Rice Paddy Fields
Magnolia grandiflora
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A Variety of Theme Gardens
Bamboo Forest
The Fern Glen and Its Living Fossils
Flowering Clay Wall
The Forbidden Garden
Succulents from the Semidesert
Sense Garden
Palm Grove
Water Lily Pond
Rose Garden
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A Variety of Theme Gardens
A Variety of Theme Gardens
Above and beyond the natural and cultivated landscapes, The Gardens
of Trauttmansdorff Castle feature more then twenty different theme
gardens that display a diverse range of ornamental plant collections.
In the spring, the Rose Garden offers magnificent blooming; in summer, the
lush lotus flowers unfold at the Water Lily Pond. Other theme gardens include
the exotic Bamboo Forest, the Sense Garden, the dense Palm Grove, and the
Fern Glen enthral visitors throughout the whole garden season. The Flowering Clay Wall, in which thousands of flowering plants thrive in a nearly vertical planting, is absolutely unique. Trauttmansdorff’s Desert Hill is home to
cacti, Euphorbia, aloes and agaves. Creepy sculptures await visitors in the Forbidden Garden amidst poisonous plants. A fairy tale was written expressly for
Trauttmansdorff about the garden: reading it before you go will enhance your
visit.
The synergy between art and nature implemented at The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle is quite unique for a botanical garden. We continually strive
to bring innovative ideas to fruition and integrate new garden areas, artwork,
and attractions into the gardens. In 2012, Forests of the World will feature a
new glasshouse for useful tropical plants and the Garden of Love will open in
2013 high above Landscapes of South Tyrol.
2013: Garden of Love
The Garden of Love will be situated
high above the downy oak wood,
and will open in 2013. Installations,
works of art, and the plantings, of
course, will take visitors on an inner
journey through the irrational landscape of human emotion. Words
and phrases chiselled on the Wall
of Love in German, Italian and
English stimulate emotions, bring
back memories, and spark dialogue
between lovers.
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A Variety of Theme Gardens
Red Valerian
In South Tyrol, the red centranthus
is found only in porphyry soil. The
plant comes originally from Southern
Europe. It is thermophilic and tends
to grow in crevices and rock clefts.
Red valerian thrives here at Trauttmansdorff, growing lushly on these
nearly vertical walls. Dense bunches
of small, dark pink blossoms appear in late spring, and remain until
autumn.
Red Valerian | Centranthus ruber
Garden Maintenance
The majority of Trauttmansdorff’s
garden areas are situated on a grade.
This limits the use of machinery
and creates certain challenges. In
order to maintain the flowerbeds
situated on an extreme grade, such
as the nearly vertical Flowering Clay
Wall, gardeners have to work while
suspended in mid-air. When doing
so, they must use climbing belts and
be secured with ropes – almost as if
rock-climbing.
Centranthus ruber
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A Variety of Theme Gardens
Palm Grove
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Trauttmansdorff’s more than two hundred Chinese windmill palms
form a thick and exotic palm grove. In early spring, more than ninety
different varieties of camellia bloom. Camellias are among the most
dazzling of spring’s flowering shrubs. Immediately afterwards, azaleas
form a brightly coloured carpet of flowers. A second “bonus” camellia
season is a delightful surprise, when the varieties that flower in autumn
burst into bloom.
The natural habitat of the Chinese
windmill palm extends from the Himalayas in Northern India to Northern Thailand and China. It is one of
the most cold-tolerant palms and thrives even outdoors in parts of Europe
with mild winters.
Countless windmill palms have characterised the cityscape of Merano
since the end of the nineteenth century. In winter, the city shielded its first
palms, which were very expensive at
that time, against snow with a protective roof. It was only during the First
World War that the impossibility of
continuing this indulgent precaution
demonstrated that the windmill palm
does not in fact need to be protected
in Merano.
Windmill Palm
The windmill palm is a fan palm
that can reach 12 to 15 metres in
height. The trunk is densely covered
with brown fibres: in the palm’s
area of origin, these were processed
into mats, ropes, brushes, and even
rain capes. Because birds disperse
its bluish violet fruits, small palms
can be found in gardens and parks
in and around Merano, including
Trauttmansdorff’s Palm Grove and
Downy Oak Forest.
Windmill Palm | Trachycarpus fortunei
Camellias
Camellias belong to the tea family,
and can be cultivated outdoors only
where the winters are mild. Their
elegant, flawless and uniformly
shaped blossoms have captivated
man over the ages. East Asians
have cultivated the camellia as an
ornamental plant for more than a
thousand years. Europeans have
known the plant for just 300 years or
so. In the nineteenth century, camellias became very fashionable and the
upper classes began displaying them
in their conservatories. Alexandre
Dumas even gave literary cachet
to this exotic plant in 1848, when
he published his novel The Lady of
the Camellias, widely known in the
English-speaking world as Camille. Camellias | Camellia sp.
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European and Asian
Garden Design
Italian Garden
English Perennial Garden
Japanese Garden
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An Adventure for One and All
The Grotto’s Origins of Life Multimedia Show
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Time Gear
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Matteo Thun’s Viewing Platform 150
Sounding Stones und Water Bell 152
Adventure Bridge 153
Geological Mosaic 154
The Innsbruck Alpenzoo Showcase 156
Aviary158
Dragonfly Clock
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Hungarian Racka Sheep 164
West African Dwarf Goats 165
Beehive166
An Adventure for One and All
An Adventure for One and All
The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle house a number of interactive installations, in addition to ten Artists Pavilions. These engaging
Experience Stations distributed throughout the gardens invite visitors
to stop and join in.
While plants take centre stage in the theme gardens, the Experience Stations
offer, for example, a close encounter with bees in the Beehive, exotic birds in
the Aviary, and a native Aesculapian snake in the Alpenzoo Showcase.
In the Grotto, a twelve-minute show takes visitors back to the origins of life
on Earth. Matteo Thun’s see-through Viewing Platform, designed in the shape
of binoculars, gives the feeling of floating in midair and affords stunning views
of the gardens and the Merano Valley Basin. Our young visitors in particular
enjoy operating the water bell, or running across the wobbly Adventure Bridge
through a riparian forest. The Geological Mosaic gives visitors a tangible experience of North Tyrol, South Tyrol, and Trentino from a geological perspective.
NEW in 2011: The Botanical
Underworld
West African Dwarf Goat
Beehive
Ara
Aesculapius
Geological Mosaic
Dragonfly
A 200-metre-long tunnel leads
visitors deep into the rock, into a
mysterious subterranean kingdom:
The Botanical Underworld. There
are several caves, each with its own
theme presented in multimedia: water, soil, nutrients, roots, and light.
Talking Elements, quarreling Nutrients, and Roots that “grow” educate
visitors about life under the earth, in
an engaging and fun way.
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Artist Pavilions
Ornamental Plants from Around the Globe
Deciduous Forests Scent Organ Plants from Regions with Mediterranean Climates
Downy Oak Forests
Succulent Plants
Water Plants Cultivated Landscapes Displacing Natural Landscapes
Plants in Spring
Plants in Fall
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Artist Pavilions
Artist Pavilions
Local and international artists and architects created ten pavilions that
interpret botanical themes and the processes of nature in an artistic
way. In the pavilions, which are distributed throughout the gardens,
visitors can learn facts about water plants, for example, or be transported into Mediterranean architecture, or walk inside a metre-high
spherical cactus made of stainless steel.
Even in ancient times, the connection between art, nature and architecture
played a significant role in landscaped gardens. The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle has reinterpreted the concept of the garden pavilion, which was
traditionally a place to linger and find protection from the weather and the sun.
Trauttmansdorff earned the honour of being named Italy’s Most Beautiful Garden in 2005 based on its unique and innovative combination of art and nature,
the garden’s huge variety of plant species from different climatic regions, and
its use of landscape architecture.
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Ornamental Plants from
Around the Globe
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This pavilion harkens back to the botanical conquests of the bygone
days with masts, sails and a telescope. Granite and terrazzo panels
form a map of the world on the floor. Five stacked blocks of stone
symbolise the five continents from which today‘s popular ornamental
plants originated.
Missionaries, merchants and sailors
began bringing new ornamental plants
back to Europe from North America
and East Asia in the sixteenth century.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the collecting mania became so
fervent that a new profession emerged:
the plant hunter. Plant hunters scoured
the globe, on behalf of money magnates and botanical gardens, in search
of plants that were previously unknown to Europeans. Once transportation in airtight glass cases, called
“ward‘s boxes”, became possible,
even delicate exotic plants could survive the long sea voyages.
Downy Oak Forests
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Sissi at Trauttmansdorff
Empress Elisabeth – In Noble Footsteps
Sissi ’s Rooms at the Touriseum
Sissi Terrace Sissi Promenade
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Touriseum
Touriseum
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The Only Museum of Tourism in
the Alps
Where Trauttmansdorff Castle stands today, there was a small fortress
in the Middle Ages. It was called Neuburg in 1300, when it was first
mentioned in documents. The Touriseum, South Tyrol’s Regional Museum of Tourism, opened in the fortress, now called Trauttmansdorff
Castle, about 700 years later, on the 15th of March, 2003. The fusion
of two concepts, “tourism” and “museum”, says it all: the Touriseum
is the first museum in the Alps that addresses the historical and modern-day local tourism on a large scale. The museum’s designers have
captured two different points of view: that of the visitors and that of
the locals.
Aron Demetz, an artist from the Gardena Valley, carved the wooden statue
of Empress Elisabeth that greets visitors in the castle courtyard. It is one of
many life-size figures that accompany visitors throughout the route. Utilising
mechanical theatre, intricate models, films and sound, Trauttmansdorff Castle
is anything but a dusty museum with lengthy texts.
Right at the beginning, the journey leads through a hair-raising rock passage,
past the remains of an overturned carriage. This is how travellers may have experienced crossing the Alps up until the nineteenth century; to be on the road
back then was no fun at all. When the railway line over the Brenner Pass went
into operation in 1867, the Alps became relatively quick and easy to access.
At the Touriseum, visitors walk through a replica of a railroad car and finds,
among other things, the saloon car of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in miniature.
Sissi spent a total of four months in Merano; in 1870 and 1889, she lived at
Trauttmansdorff Castle. Her visit brought the town great prestige. Throughout South Tyrol, the arrival of tourists led not only to the creation of tourist
offices, but also to a heated discussion about the pros and cons of tourism.
The turn of the century saw the first heyday for tourism: southern Tyrol had
become the “south-facing balcony of the monarchy”, many members of European high society came for the spas, and grand hotels were plentiful. The
exuberant attitude towards life that characterised the Belle Epoque can still
be imagined on the grand staircase of Trauttmansdorff Castle, which is staged
like a hotel lobby today. The “beautiful era” ended abruptly when World War
I broke out. The resort area transformed into a battle zone, and the Dolomites,
once admired for their beauty, became a hotly contested front line. The visitor now stands in a dark trench that leads into an Italian bar in the style of
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Sounding Stones
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Plants from Regions with
Mediterranean Climates Pavillon
Palm Beach
Aviary
Mediterranean Garigue
Flowering Clay Wall
Mediterranean Macchia
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Scent Organ Pavillon
Deciduous Forests Pavillon
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Garden of Love
(opening in 2013)
Wild Fruit-Tree Groves
of the Near East
Downy Oak Forest
Sclerophyllous Forests
of the Mediterranean
Summergreen Trees and Shrubs
from China’s Deciduous Forests
Sissi Promenade
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Succulent Plants Pavilion
Japanese Garden
Italian Garden
The Grotto’s Origins of
Life, Multimedia Show
Rice Paddy Fields
of East Asia
Time Gear
Useful Plants of
the Mediterranean
Bamboo Forest
Hungarian Racka Sheep
Riparian Forest
Meadow Orchard
Dragonfly Clock
Adventure Bridge
Alluvial Forests
on the Mississippi River
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Plants in Fall Pavillon
The Botanical Underworld
Vineyard
Sense Garden
Touriseum
Cypress Swamps
of North America
Succulents
from the Semidesert
English Perennial Garden
Tea Plantations
of East Asia
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Downy Oak Forests Pavillon
Sounding Stones
The Innsbruck
Alpenzoo Showcase
Moist Deciduous Forests of North America
The Fern Glen and
Its Living Fossils
Matteo Thun’s Viewing Platform
West African Dwarf Goat
Sissi Terrace
Water Plants
Pavillon
Water Bell
Geological Mosaic
Water Lily Pond
The Forbidden Garden
Cottage Garden
Beehive
Plants in Spring
Pavillon
Rose Garden
Ornamental Plants from
Around the Globe Pavillon
Evergreen Laurel Forests of East Asia
Tabernaculum
Olive Grove
Cultivated Landscapes Displacing
Natural Landscapes Pavillon
Limonaia
Chestnut Groves
Palm Grove
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The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff were
named Italy’s Most Beautiful Garden
in 2005 out of 64 participating gardens
and parks from all over the country.
This national competition was conducted
under the auspices of Briggs&Stratton
in cooperation with the Grandi Giardini
Italiani association.
Entrance – Exit
Forests of the World Circuit, 15 min.
Panoramic Trail to Palm Beach, 15 min.
The Sun Gardens Circuit, 15 min.
Panoramic Trail to the Aviary, 20 min.
The Water and Terraced Gardens Circuit, 15 min.
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Landscapes of South Tyrol Circuit, 20 min.
Panoramic Trail to Matteo Thun’s Viewing Platform, 20 min.
All walking circuits are baby carriage and wheelchair
friendly except the Panoramic Trail to Matteo Thun’s
Viewing Platform.
Size: 12 ha
Pathways: 7 km
Altitude Differential: about 100 m
Tip: allow 2 1/2 hours min. for visit
KARIN ORTLER
born in Silandro (Schlanders) in
1969, studied biology at the University of Innsbruck (A), majoring
in botany. She has been working at The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle since 1999, and
has been involved in the development of the botanical gardens.
The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff
Castle, with its rich biodiversity of
plants and unique fusion of art and
nature, and the Touriseum, South
Tyrol’s museum of Tourism, which is
housed inside Trauttmansdorff Castle,
comprise an innovative, modern
complex that is guaranteed to
enchant visitors. Trauttmansdorff
Castle, surrounded by twelve hectares
of botanical gardens, is of historical
interest because Empress Elisabeth of
Austria, commonly known as Sissi,
used the castle as a residence.
This guide contains information about
Trauttmansdorff‘s local and exotic
model landscapes, its various themed
gardens, Artist Pavilions, interactive
Experience Stations, and blooming
highlights throughout the course of the
seasons. The guide also describes the
wide array of events held at the
gardens and outlines all walking
circuits and panoramic trails. An
overview map aids orientation.
www.trauttmansdorff.it
Guide to the Gardens Trauttmansdorff
TRAUTTMANSDORFF
KARIN ORTLER
Guide to
the Gardens
Italy’s Most Beautiful Garden
Merano, South Tyrol