Description
The Parco di Villa De Capua, the De Capoa public gardens, is Campobasso's historic garden, in the city center. Born as a monastery's medicinal herb garden, it is now a park of about 16,000 square meters, with avenues, evergreen hedges and large trees.
You enter through a fine wrought-iron gate on Piazza Falcone e Borsellino. Among the trees stand tall sequoias, cypresses, lindens, Norway spruces and cedars of Lebanon; on the main avenue is a statue of Bacchus with bunches of grapes.
Strolling around you come across a tufa grotto, a basin with a small fountain, an open space with a stone balustrade and two tombs in 15th-century style. For children there is a playground.
The park belonged to the nearby monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, founded by Andrea de Capoa: the monks grew the herbs for medicines here. Passed to private owners, it became a place for walks, and in 1875 Countess Marianna De Capoa gave it to the city.
You enter through a fine wrought-iron gate on Piazza Falcone e Borsellino. Among the trees stand tall sequoias, cypresses, lindens, Norway spruces and cedars of Lebanon; on the main avenue is a statue of Bacchus with bunches of grapes.
Strolling around you come across a tufa grotto, a basin with a small fountain, an open space with a stone balustrade and two tombs in 15th-century style. For children there is a playground.
The park belonged to the nearby monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, founded by Andrea de Capoa: the monks grew the herbs for medicines here. Passed to private owners, it became a place for walks, and in 1875 Countess Marianna De Capoa gave it to the city.