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Borges Labyrinth

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church

Enid, Oklahoma, 73701, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Indoor
  • Portability
    Portable
  • Phone
    580-237-4737

The Burn

Brechin, Angus, DD9 7YP, Scotland
  • Availability
    Appointment
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Designer: Jeff Saward, Labyrinthos

Touchstone Maze

Strathpeffer, Scotland
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Designer: Helen Rowson

Stone labyrinth

Isle of Iona, Scotland
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent

St.Paul’s Episcopal Church

Newburyport, Massachusetts, 01950, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    978-465-5351
  • Designer: Rev. Roger W. Cramer

Catawba Valley Medical Center

Hickory, North Carolina, 28602, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Indoor
  • Portability
    Portable
  • Phone
    828-326-3377

St. John’s Preparatory School

Danvers, Massachusetts, 01923, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    978-314-1012
  • Designer: Dale Bryant, art dept./ Bobby Malone, math dept./Ben Slingerland ’07

Saint Gregory the Great Catholic Church

San Diego, California, 92131, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    858-653-3540

Wesley United Methodist Church

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 18017, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Indoor
  • Portability
    Portable
  • Phone
    610-865-5715
  • Designer: Robert Ferre

Christ Episcopal Church

Seattle, Washington, 98105, United States
  • Availability
    Appointment
  • Situation
    Indoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    206-633-1611

Wilderness Wind

Ely, Minnesota, 55731, United States
  • Availability
    Private
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    218-365-5873
  • Designer: Summer Staff 2005

First United Methodist Church

Roseburg, Oregon, 97470, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    541-672-1629
  • Designer: Dan Cowley

Loyola Spirituality Center

St. Paul, Minnesota, 55104, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    651-641-0008
  • Designer: M.J. McGregor

Honey Hole

Temple, Georgia, 30179, United States
  • Availability
    Private
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    404-520-1877
  • Designer: Missie Tidwell

Faith Lutheran Church (ELCA)

Columbus, Wisconsin, 53925, United States
  • Availability
    Public
  • Situation
    Outdoor
  • Portability
    Permanent
  • Phone
    920-623-3610
  • Designer: Paul Bergum

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