For some reason this garden is located off of most tourists maps, but grabbing a copy of the Visitors Map from the metro stations will quickly show you the easiest way there. Tram number 12. Though it's accessible through other means, tram 12 will let you off right at the front gates.
Stepping through you'll be confronted by an ever opening expanse; it's best to take a picture of the posted map to refer to later when you're wondering if you've seen everything.
This is a garden with well over one hundred pieces located within it. You'll see the first few dozen as you cross the main bridge. It's said that each piece represents one stage in a humans life cycle. And while, at times, it can be cryptic – other pieces will speak to you immediately, and directly.
Once across the bridge, you'll see a fountain surrounded by even more pieces, and beyond that the great monolith towering into the air. All the bodies entwined with one another, located here, were carved out of one piece of stone. And the work itself needed to be moved to this location, in the pre-motorized era.
Surrounding this piece are a number of other pieces, all working around a similar theme, continuing to depict the human life.
And still, there is more. Passing beyond the monolith, you'll find yourself walking towards a piece representing all the astrological signs, and then beyond it is a great circle, created by bodies grasping bodies.
Without a doubt this is the most fantastic thing I've ever seen in the entire world (Victoria Harbour on Vancouver Island being the last to hold that title.)
There are actually 212 pieces in the park.
ReplyDeleteAnd the park was completed in the 1940s, cars were plentiful even then.
The man fighting "babies" is in fact fighting genii (daemons) :)