Botanical Portfolio

Gathering the extraordinary beauty of our Botanical Garden in 110 shots was not an easy task, and yet, it succeeded!
To visit the Botanical Garden with awareness is to take a kind of tour of the world, its landscapes, its cultures. Like the Prince of Pandolfina who reached his Jerusalem, making the whole journey without ever leaving his garden, the visitor can ascend the Andes, reach the Australian islands and from there the coasts of the Americas, the Caribbean islands, the Atlantic islands and then Africa, the Arabian deserts, the Himalayan slopes and finally China, before returning to the beloved Mediterranean. All this in just over a couple of hours! All in all, this little portfolio will leave you with the memory, and perhaps the nostalgia, of a multifaceted and living world, made up of nature skilfully managed by man.
A world, that of the Botanical Garden, which is a metaphor for the hospitality of the Mediterranean, of Sicily, of Palermo. A mythical place of W. Goethe's primordial plant, a place where the Genius loci is willing to devour its possessions to nourish its host (alterius nutrit, suos divorat). A place of beauty that is never banal, but profound.
This is what the splendid photos of Eliana Lombardo give us, with the cards of the Director, Prof. Rosario Schicchi, and the Curator, Dr. Manlio Speciale, who have taken care of this journey all year round so that you too can do it, with love, awareness and care.