Giardino dei Giusti di tutto il mondo, Memorial garden in Monte Stella park, Milan, Italy.
The Garden of the Righteous of the World is a memorial area along the Viale dei Giusti in Milan's Monte Stella park, in the QT8 district. It was inaugurated on 24 January 2003 and consists of a granite stele and a Prunus avium tree for each person honoured. The first three steles commemorate Moshe Bejski, Pietro Kuciukian and Svetlana Broz. A 2013–2019 renovation added the Space of Dialogue, the Ulianova Radice amphitheatre, the Tree of Memory and the Tree of Virtue.
The garden was inaugurated on 24 January 2003, the first of its kind in Italy and the third in the world after Jerusalem and Yerevan. It was created on the initiative of historian Gabriele Nissim, president of Gariwo, on the artificial hill of Monte Stella, built from rubble from Allied bombing and from the demolition of the last stretches of the city bastions after 1945. In 2008 the city council gave it legal form through an association founded on 13 November 2008 by the Municipality of Milan, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities and Gariwo.
Each dedication ceremony, open to the public, places a granite marker inscribed with the person's name and the reason for the honour beneath a Prunus avium cherry tree planted in the presence of the person or their family. The first three trees, planted at the inauguration on 24 January 2003, honour Moshe Bejski for the Righteous Among the Nations of Yad Vashem, Pietro Kuciukian for the Righteous for the Armenians, and Svetlana Broz for the Righteous against ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
The garden features pathways connecting all monuments and trees, designed to be accessible for visitors of different mobility levels. An audio guide with images and narratives helps visitors understand the stories behind each dedication.
Each honored individual receives both a granite marker and a cherry tree, creating a living collection that grows with time. The trees form a gradually expanding woodland of remembrance that changes with the seasons.
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