Ninfia

From csmonitor.com: Once it was a ruin. Now it's a beautiful garden.

This is the story of one of Italy's most beautiful gardens - how it almost disappeared and was rescued by women of three successive generations who fell in love with it. It's also the story of a man who was chosen as a boy to guide the garden into the future.

In the beginning, it wasn't a garden at all. Instead, Ninfa was a town, one that has been referred to as the medieval Pompeii. [continue]

Posted on July 22, 2005 11:57 PM. Filed under: Italy.