Coordinates: 43 ° 50'32.49 "N 10 ° 30'48.02" E / 43.842358 ° N 10.513339 ° E43.842358; 10.513339 The Elisa Garden is located in Lucca via Elisa 54.

The intention of the builders was to recreate in scale, proportionally to the provincial town, the effects of Paris's Rue de Rivoli, to cheer Duchess Elisa Baciocchi. The project, born with the complex of the new Elisa Street, was approved on 23 June 1812.

The garden occupies a narrow, long shape, almost triangular, with a Froussard palace, today Sodini, which is part of the building on the helix in front of Elisa door.

A high enclosure wall delimits the area, with no openings to the outside. The design of the flower beds was altered by losing the correspondence between the curvilinear interior of the palace and the terminal part of the garden of a similar shape, which formed a perspective symmetry. The parterre had a rectangular runway with driveways.

Today, however, the garden is crossed by an avenue of greater proportions along the east wall, from which secondary paths run. A stop zone, with mistiline tub, represents the culmination of the plant. Plant species were added over the centuries, enriching the rather rigid initial kit in the selection. Today there is a large cedar of Lebanon, two magnolias, a leccio and other plants, bushes and hedges.

The final part of the garden is at a higher altitude, with a series of steps on the margins that fill the altitude, characterized by laurel hedges forming a kind of "green handrail". Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto

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