Registration is now open for the Tai Chi course with Orlando Barnabà, in collaboration with Cus Pavia. The lessons will be on every Thursday from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The course will continue until June 2025.   For course registration and all information visit the CUS website.    All Horti Friends have a discounted rate. Download the flyer at the link.   ...

The three-day festival to celebrate the arrival of spring returns.   Horti in primavera will take place from 16th-18th May. The initiative is a time for us all to come together, marking the rebirth of the park and its fauna. We will soon share more information about the meetings, concerts, poetry, readings and guided tours that the Horti will host, in the meantime, mark the date on your calendar!...

What exactly happened on 24 February 1525? And why is it important to remember it?   At the Battle of Pavia, the imperial army of Charles V and the French troops led by King Francis I faced off. A clash not only between peoples, but between innovation and tradition, both technologically and strategically, whose outcome shook the whole of Europe.   In this popular narrative, by and with park guide ...

Horti, in collaboration with Galleria Canesso, has inaugurated the exhibition Horti Custos: The Custode dell’Orto within the Spazio Extra Art.    The work, a very rare case of transposition into stone of the artistic spirit of the Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526-1593), aims to highlight the profound bond between man and nature; the sculpture is the work of a Lombard artist whose identit...

Untitled by Jannis Kounellis, the great master of Arte Povera who died in 2017, is the newest artwork to make its entrance in the Horti park. The work, created for the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, will be inaugurated in the Extra Art space of the Almo Collegio Borromeo on Thursday 5 December at 6.30 pm. A toast will follow.   ‘Untitled’ is composed of casts of classic...

The historical revisitations of collegiate traditions in a contemporary key continue.  On 21 November at 6.30 p.m. we will host Michele De Lucchi, architect and designer, and Mariangela Gualtieri, poet and writer, in the Sala Affreschi of the Collegio Borromeo. This large space used to be the place where students' preparation was publicly tested. The examination and graduation ceremony of Borromeo...

Horti hosts the presentation of the results of the ‘Design & Make Workshop 2025’, a project by YACademy for Horti.   Within the workshop, participants will create custom-made seats for the park. Following this, there will be an inaugural performance entitled ‘Horti De Acqua’ by Simone Miraldi.  ...

Horti, on the second anniversary since its opening, will be hosting the 'Horti Aperti' event for the third year running. The market exhibition, located in the 'Community of Trees' of the Horti park, will focus on the theme 'the forest and the garden'.   Horti Aperti intends to address the themes of ecology and the quality of life in the city and to combine "knowledge" - meetings and conferences - ...

On the 6th November at 6:00 p.m., Horti and the Collegio Borromeo will host Michelangelo Pistoletto, artist, painter and sculptor, in dialogue with Serena Bertolucci, Director M9 - Museo del ‘900. The 16th-century Refectory, a space of daily conviviality for pupils of all ages, opens its doors to the public for the first time to nourish minds with the culture of encounter and dialogue.     A veget...

This Sunday at 3 p.m., we look forward to seeing you at the archaeological excavation in Horti for a guided tour with the archeologist, Luca Visconti, to discover first-hand the progress of the site.    At the end we will celebrate Christmas with a cup of mulled wine and roasted chestnuts. ...

Horti and the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation have inaugurated 'La Lunga Arte', an exhibition focusing on the fruitful intellectual relationship between the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro and the poet Francesco Leonetti.   We look forward to seeing you in the Extra Art space in Horti from Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The exhibition will remain open until 30th October, while the s...

On 13 September, a piece of art that will become part of the Horti's permanent collection will be inaugurated. "Il Salmerino Viandante" will be placed in a small pool of water in the wooded area of the Horti known as the "Comunità degli Alberi".     The artist and author of the work Giulia Mangoni will be in dialogue with Chiara Guidi (art critic), Matthew Noble (founder ArtNoble Gallery, Milan) a...

"Alla scoperta degli Horti e del Collegio Borromeo" will be held on Tuesday, July 16 at 6:45 p.m., an exclusive event dedicated to our Horti Friends.   Our guide Simone Miraldi will take us on a tour focused on nature, art and history, through the Horti and Collegio Borromeo grounds.    ...

Horti inaugurated the exhibition “Progetto Genesi. Arte e Diritti Umani” open until Sunday, June 2. Pavia, thanks to the support of the Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lombardia, hosts a stage of the Genesi Association's traveling initiative. The exhibition stems from the belief that contemporary art can take on the role of ambassador of human rights. In line with the mission of the Horti, where nat...