You walked barefoot on the white stone. You bowed to caress an oleander flower. You let a hybiscus petal brush your sun-gold skin. And now close your eyes. Let yourself be lulled by the warm south wind. There is a scent of blue limonium here in the center of the garden. Rosemary, helichrysum, santolina. Cistus, sage, verbena. Gaures, pavonias, gazzanias. The oleanders. The long leaves of the palm trees stand out against the sky. The green and the blue. Colors. How many colors, the colors of Nora, of a mythical and granitic history - the Phoenicians, the Punics, the Carthaginians, the Romans of the second century after Christ, and of a passionate and courageous present.
Thus, the Garden of Sant'Efis, in Nora, with its 120 different plant species, enters the network of the Great Italian Gardens. A new record for our Sardinia. In fact, only Beranu Froriu of tulips in Turri is part of the network.
"In summer, the gardens offer an opportunity for relaxation, in which to admire nature, and discover our immense artistic and cultural heritage", tells us Judith Wade, CEO of Grandi Giardini Italiani. "An opportunity, too, to benefit from the heat".
The landscape engineer Maurizio Usai signed the project for the Garden that surrounds and borders, almost sensually, the Sant'Efis. His idea, that of a sensory park. That's why we advised you to close your eyes, walk barefoot, stroke leaves and petals. It is the five senses, in this garden, that guide and conquer you. Exciting you, but not upsetting you. The park of Sant'Efis, in fact, carries on the Sardinian tradition for sub-tropical plants. In the 19th century, the city of Pula was at the center of chronicles due to the botanical discoveries of the Marquis of Villarmosa, who acclimatised plants found in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and imported jacarandas, phytolaccas, majestic ficuses from Moreton Bay. Below which, today, we can stop and dream. Because the Garden of Sant'Efis can also be visited by the public. All information on +39 070 920 81 81.
