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Borges Labyrinth

Sparta United Methodist Church

Sparta, New Jersey, 07871, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    201-230-5504
  • Designer: Bob Schutz

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church

Orinda, California, 94563, United States
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    925-254-3770

Private Property

Stora Askeron, Sweden
  • Designer: John Ridder (original Story Path design)

Domaine Maizerets Arboretum

Québec City, Quebec, G1E3R6, Canada
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    418-641-6335

Leeds Castle Maze

Maidstone, ME17 1PL, England
  • Availability
    Public
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Designer: Adrian Fisher, Randoll Coate and Vernon Gibberd

Labyrinth at Brentwood Campus SSJ

Brentwood, New York, 11717, United States
  • Availability
    Private
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    631-838-0013

Sea Isle City United Methodist Church

Sea Isle City, New Jersey, 08243, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Temporary
  • Phone
    609-263-3353
  • Designer: Rev. Barbara Frohock

St Paul’s Episcopal Church

Louisville, Kentucky, 40220, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    502-491-7417

Chelmsford Diocesan House of Retreat

Pleshey, Essex, CM3 1HA, England
  • Availability
    Appointment
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    01245-237251
  • Designer: Rev Graham Dowling

Yocum Family

Dover, Delaware, 19904, United States
  • Availability
    Private
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    302-399-7266
  • Designer: Eric Yocum

Mountain Light Retreat

Crozet, Virginia, 22932-1540, United States
  • Availability
    Appointment
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    434-825-2361
  • Designer: Chuck Hunner

Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Garden at Elm Bank

Wellesley, Massachusetts, 02482, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    617-933-4934

3HO Summer Solstice

Hernandez, New Mexico, 87537, United States
  • Availability
    Private
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    1-505-629-0267

St. Isaac’s Retreat House

Opononi, New Zealand
  • Availability
    Appointment
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    0064 21 0717033

Goodell Gardens & Homestead

Edinboro, Pennsylvania, 16412, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    814-734-6699
  • Designer: JJ Wurst Landscaping

Photo: Paola Gospodnetich

San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice
Italy

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The Borges Labyrinth garden-maze opened in 2011 in Venice's island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Dedicated to the Argentinian author on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, it can be visited on one's own or – of course – with the aid of a tour guide who knows the way out. After all, as Jorge Luis Borges himself claimed, A maze is a house built purposely to confuse men; its architecture, prodigal in symmetries, is made to serve that purpose. The fantastic vegetable web is made up of 3,200 box trees, and branches out from a single exit route of over one kilometer. It was built by the Cini Foundation according to a design created by British architect Randoll Coate in the 1980s, in homage to the famous Buenos Aires native. The green labyrinth weaves in two opposite directions the word Borges and the symbols the poet held dearest: a stick, an hourglass, a tiger, and a question mark. Despite the structure's complexity, getting really lost here is almost impossible: the labyrinth is mostly an artistic symbol of how people in the 20th-century felt lost, abandoned because they lost a center to rely on, and mesmerized because they now saw reality as an indecipherable tangle.

  • Type:

    Maze

  • Availability:

    Public

  • Situation:

    Outdoor

  • Status:

    Permanent

  • Material:

    Rock or Garden

  • Designer:

    Randoll Coate

  • Wheelchair Accessible:

    No

  • Schedule Times:

    Open Saturdays and Sundays

  • Date installed:

    2011