The Garden of the Villa Bonaparte Belgiojoso, Public garden in Milan, Italy.
The Garden of the Villa Bonaparte Belgiojoso is the English-style park of the Villa Reale, laid out behind the palace by Leopoldo Pollack, who built the villa between 1790 and 1796. The garden front, considered Pollack's masterpiece, has a horizontal rhythm of arches, half-columns and high-reliefs, with statues on the balustrade and pediments holding the Chariot of Day and the Chariot of Night.
The park was designed in 1793 by architect Leopold Pollack under the patronage of Count Lodovico Barbiano. It was among the first English-style gardens created in Milan and helped introduce this new design approach to the city.
The garden's English-style layout was designed by Leopoldo Pollack alongside the villa he built between 1790 and 1796. The figurative themes of the villa's exterior decoration were set by the Milanese poet Giuseppe Parini, whose program includes reliefs of Temperance, Hospitality and Punished Deceit on the courtyard facade.
The garden is located on Via Palestro and is accessible with varying hours depending on the season. It is helpful to check the current opening times before visiting, as these change throughout the year.
In 1920 the park hosted Fortunato Depero's "Padiglione del libro", a large typographic sculpture built for the Bestetti-Tuminelli and Treves publishers to promote reading in Italy, where illiteracy reached nearly 80 percent in 1870. Free reading and writing lessons were held inside.
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