Cerca do Mosteiro de Tibães
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 1998
edited by Domenico Luciani with Patrizia Boschiero and Luigi Latini
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
Treviso 1998
28 pages
39 illustrations in colour and 9 black and white
also in Portuguese, edited by the Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico, Mire de Tibães 1998
out of print
The Jury of the International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens has unanimously decided unanimously to award the 1998 prize, the ninth in the series, to the Cerca do Mosteiro de Tibães, a vast estate with woods, orchards, vegetable and flower gardens, lakes and canals, buildings and stone sculptures, created by Benedictine monks on the slopes of the São Gens mountain towards the town of Mire de Tibães and the River Cávado, near the city of Braga in the region of Minho in the far north of Portugal.
The cultural landscape, which originally covered an area of 40 hectares surrounded by a high wall, was established around the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Martin of Tibães. It occupies a particularly fertile natural site between the ocean and the mountains, with frequent heavy rains supplying the many springs and streams; a place where over thousands of years man has developed remarkable skills in governing water and using materials from granite to wood, from clay to gold and in exploiting a profound knowledge of the plant world and its infinite receptiveness to experiment.
Contents
Motivazione della giuria
Paulo Pereira, Patrimonio culturale, comunità, identità
Aida Maria Reis da Mata e Maria João Dias Costa, Una vita nuova per il barco dei monaci
La fabbrica del monastero
Il giardino di San Giovanni
Bibliografia
