The Bosco Isabella is a self-described "romantic and esoteric garden" that combines a partly natural and cultivated arboretum along with a monumental triangular stone step pyramid. It is located on 2.5 hectares just south of the hamlet of

Radicofani Radicofani () is a ''comune'' in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany, located in the natural park of Val d'Orcia about southeast of Florence and about southeast of Siena. Radicofani borders the following municipalities: Abbadia ...

in the

province of Siena The province of Siena (, ) is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Siena. It has 259,826 inhabitants. Geography The province is divided into seven historical areas: * Alta Val d'Elsa * Chian ...

, region of

Tuscany Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital city is Florence. Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its in ...

, Italy. This garden, erected in the first half of the 20th century, was the invention of members of the Luchini family, including Odoardo Luchini (1844–1906), an Italian senator; his wife Isabella Andreucci (1842–1924), for whom the garden is named; and their only daughter Matilde (1871–1948), a painter of the

Macchiaioli The Macchiaioli () were a group of Italian painters active in Tuscany in the second half of the nineteenth century. They strayed from antiquated conventions taught by the Italian art academies, and did much of their painting outdoors in order ...

school. Odoardo was passionate about natural English gardens, and arrayed along the paths, various water features, walls and bridges, built with stone from the spot. Ruins of a putative ancient temple were highlighted, as well as the ruins of a former Sienese fort destroyed in 1555, and neighboring the

Via Francigena The Via Francigena (), also known as Francisca or Romea, is an ancient road and Christian pilgrimage, pilgrimage route running from the City status in the United Kingdom#Cathedral towns, cathedral city of Canterbury in England, through France and ...

. Some of the designs including the triangle and the circle reference

Masonic Order Freemasonry (sometimes spelled Free-Masonry) consists of fraternal groups that trace their origins to the medieval guilds of stonemasons. Freemasonry is the oldest secular fraternity in the world and among the oldest still-existing organizati ...

symbols.Visit Tuscany website
entry on garden.

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