Florence, at the Garden of Boboli knocked nineteenth -century trees: only the grass remains of the chestnut lawn
The decision of the Uffizi: « Safety reasons, they were sick ». Farewell to the nineteenth -century row and a Lebanon cedar that was 200 years old
To the garden of Bobles An nineteenth -century horse racing and a Lebanon cedar of over two hundred years of age disappears. And while the controversy is unleashed on the cut of those trees, The Uffizi galleries specify that the choice was made for safeguard the safety of visitors Since they were old, sick or dangerous plants.
The intervention, made in recent days, in the last few hours has caused several bad moods within the same Uffizi, but was then bounced also on social networks: « What a disaster », « Perfect, let’s mount a beautiful panoramic wheel », « green name but not in fact », are some of the critical comments with respect to the decision of the galleries directed by Simone Verde.
Away the trees from the chestnut lawn
The index is focused on the fact that the Prato dei Castagni -who was immortalized by the French landscape painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot in the context « Vue de Florence Depuis Le Jardin de Boboli » of 1835-today is no longer such. And also that where there was a temperate oasis There will be a desert for years.
Someone also points out that in the lawn the cartel of the work in progress – in which they are commissioned by the former director Eike Schmidt – provides for the « Realization of a coffee shop of the coffee shop in the building called Prato dei Castagni in Boboli « .
But it is the same Schmidt to explain that the cafeteria project It has nothing to do by cutting treesIndeed, « he even planned to build the table area outside the three ancient trees near the building, in order to give it more space, obviously preserving them ». The current director of the Neapolitan museum of Capodimonte, however, specifies that he does not want to comment on green choices, his successor.
The response of the Uffizi
From the Uffizi galleries a note gives a very clear interpretation of the recent intervention made to the Boboli garden: «The trees are subject to constant stability verification. Some plants of the area were old, others sickstill others dangerous; Over time, either they have collapsed on their own (like a historical cedar, in 2014, or following weather events), or were removed as they are dangerous, to protect the safety of visitors. In any case, these are mostly not of chestnuts but of Bagolari. In addition, a review of elements and areas of the park is currently underway in the design phase in coordination with the Ministry of Culture ».
On the revision of Boboli there is no shortage of contrasts, because there are those who assume that there would be the will to redesign the chestnut lawn According to an ancient eighteenth -century project, abandoning the design conceived in the following century in which the trees designed a triangular shape, complete with broken column, recalling that Masonic symbolism in vogue at the time. But there are also those who do not consider the nineteenth -century transformations worthy of particular landscape value. On this point, however, the Uffizi galleries do not comment.
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