Holy Edible Landscape Design

Abstract

The “orto”, the exact place controlling the landscape, used to preserve the “grief of the territory”, encouraging relationships. A mosaic of tiles, “no ceiling” spaces, edible landscapes, cloisters, agricultural gardens held inside the numerous ecclesiastical settlements connected by a network of paths, designing the holy landscape. This paper, deepening the theme of the holy edible gardens design achieved in Campania, from “L’Aranceto dei Gerolamini” to the single-monk gardens of the Eremo of Camaldoli in Naples, describes the LANDesign action developed by the edible garden in the Abazia benedettina of San Lorenzo ad septimum in Aversa, place of both knowledge and cultural production (agricultural products and objects of design), designed and built on the site of ancient burials. The project has been achieved in more than 350 gardens.