The “Bosco della Ragnaia” – If not here, where?
The Bosco della Ragnaia is a private woodland park, open to the public, located in San Giovanni d’Asso, a small town near Siena. It is named after what has been a typical element of Italian gardens since the Middle Ages, the “ragnaia”: a little impenetrable wood formed by dense hedges of holm oaks, myrtles and mastic trees, created to attract with its shadows and streams, birds that were caught with special nets called “ragne”. Today, this eighteenth-century ragnaia it is only used to catch just ironic thoughts and enigmatic questions.
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