A blos­som­ing paradise awaits you on the sun­ny slopes east of Mer­an (where Em­press Sis­si once strolled about): 80 land­s­caped gar­dens from around the world have been laid out on 12 hectares: a Mediter­ranean sun gar­den, wa­ter and ter­raced gar­dens, for­est gar­dens ... re­mem­ber, the land­s­capes of South Ty­rol, are home to a liv­ing cross-sec­tion of all the varied life forms that flour­ish be­low the Bren­n­er Pass, from fields of grain to gall-oak forests.

3000 plant spe­cies and around 30 gard­n­ers to cul­ti­vate them. A mar­v­el to be­hold, full of colour and life and be­witch­ing fra­grances. The Grot­to and mul­ti-me­dia show, the Orchid House, and a ge­o­log­i­cal mo­sa­ic, where you can walk across a rep­re­sen­ta­tive sam­ple of the many forms of rock found in Ty­rol, are just a few high­lights. The Gar­den Labyrinth, the Gar­den of the Sens­es, the Cot­tage Gar­den...

To top it all off, eleven artists were com­mis­sioned to cre­ate gar­den pav­ilions of their own, orig­i­nal de­sign de­signed to pre­sent, in nov­el ways, the sur­vi­val strate­gies of plant life - to the de­light of chil­dren, too. Al­ready in 2005, Trautt­mans­dorff was vot­ed "Ita­ly’s Most Beau­ti­ful Gar­den"!