12 Medieval Garden

BIODIVERSITY PATH

▸ 12 Medieval Garden

A man-made enclosed secret garden, a cloister, nostalgic of paradise lost. Designed to be a meeting place with a higher order, the medieval garden is represented by the geometric plan to which it was carried out.

Thus, around the fountain, framed with roses which symbolise Life and the Soul, the garden extends out with medicinal herbs, symbolising the Mind through the understanding of nature, and the vegetable garden which provides sustenance reminiscent of the Body, and lastly the Senses which are represented by the sound of water and the smell of the herbs and flowers, the feeling of all the life which surrounds us.

The quit and reclusive atmosphere of the Prows quarry emanates from this garden, evoking the repose and worldly remoteness of the cloister of a medieval monastery.