Coach Tour of Ischia and La Mortella Botanic Gardens from Sorrento

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Stop At: Giardini La Mortella, Via Francesco Calise 39, 80075 Forio, Isola d'Ischia Italy

In 1949 the musician William Walton decided to settle on the island of Ischia with his Argentine wife Susana. The spouses built at the foot of Mount Zaro, a lava rock flow, a villa surrounded by a grandiose botanical garden. Today La Mortella is composed of two deeply different parts: La Valle, in fact, designed by Russell Page, characterized by a subtropical climate, moist and protected from the wind, and the Hill or upper garden, entirely designed and developed by Lady Walton, with areas sun-drenched and windswept and characterized by vegetation from the Mediterranean areas. In the upper garden there is the Thai room, surrounded by lotus flowers, bamboo and Japanese maples, the temple of the Sun, enriched by bas-reliefs by Simon Verity; the waterfall of the Crocodile; the Nymphaeum; the Greek Theater and the rock of William, a trachitic boulder placed on a promontory about 120 meters above sea level, where the ashes of the artist and his wife are kept.


Duration: 3 hours