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Borges Labyrinth

Unity of Phoenix Spiritual Center

Phoenix, Arizona, 85022, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    602-978-3200

Brockholes Nature Reserve

Preston, Lancashire, PR5 0AG, England
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    01772 317240
  • Designer: Anne Selby

Arvada United Methodist Church

Arvada, Colorado, 80004-1942, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    303-421-5135
  • Designer: Terry Rudolph, Alternative Land Design

Mitchell R. Alegre and Associates

Glenwood, New York, 14069, United States
  • Availability
    Appointment
  • Situation
    Indoor
  • Portability
    Portable
  • Phone
    716-462-7640
  • Designer: Nathan Wiles

Sentara Leigh Hospital

Norfolk, Virginia, 23502, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    757-261-6000

Myers Park United Methodist Church

Charlotte, North Carolina, 28207, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Indoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    704-231-7417
  • Designer: James N. Deal Jr. with Kathleen Mansfield

Crieff Hills Retreat Centre

Puslinch, Ontario, N0B 2J0, Canada
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    800-884-1525

Pepperfield Garden

Mount Hunter, New South Wales, 2570, Australia
  • Availability
    Appointment
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    0410 409 110
  • Designer: Mark Healy

Oriental United Methodist Church

Oriental, North Carolina, 28571, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    252-249-0213

Blarbuie Woodland

Lochgilphead, Argyll, PA31 8LD, Scotland
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    01546 810375
  • Designer: Margaret Ker

First Presbyterian Church of El Paso

El Paso, Texas, 79902, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    915-533-7551
  • Designer: Ali Neal

Sofia University

Palo Alto, California, 94303, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Designer: Robert Ferre and Lars Howlett

Quarry Park

El Granada, California, 94018, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Designer: Lars Howlett

Private Property

Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, 56472, United States
  • Availability
    Appointment
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Designer: Lars Howlett

Unitarian Universalist Church of the Desert

Rancho Mirage, California, 92270, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    760-218-8865
  • Designer: History, Leslie, Dan, Team Labyrinth

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