The history of the park in Levico Terme (Trento) is closely entwined with the idea of the spa town and began in 1898 when Giulio Adriano Pollacseck, director of the Società Levico-Vetriolo Heilquellen, bought a “field of vines and mulberries” of about 120,000 sqm in the Caodigne area.
The intention was to create a “place for spa cures” with a large hotel – centre set in a big garden. In the early 1900s, the gardener Georg Zill of Berlin was commissioned to design a garden in accordance with 19th century tastes. The garden was built in record time, with a network of pathways to delight the guests at the large spa hotel, and inaugurated in 1905. A tree-lined road connected the train station with the spa centre, leading directly to the main entrance of the park and then to the Grand hotel. The monumental trees, including giant cedars and a tall sequoia, date to this time.
Villa Paradiso, the elegant liberty building in the centre of the park, was the gardener’s residence. The beeches and other broadleaved trees were added to the garden during the post war period by director Alcide Saltori, who also introduced flowerbeds in the clearings once used for light therapy.
The main pathways are lined with Caucasian firs.
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