Tonino Guerra's Forgotten Fruit Alley organized at the Georgian National Botanic Garden
Monday, November 16
A special ceremony was organized and held at the Tbilisi Botanical Garden by the Tonino Guerra Foundation. Ambassador of Italy to Georgia, H.E. Enrico Valvo, and the Director of the Tonino Guerra Foundation, Nino Abuladze attended the event along with the Deputy Mayor of Tbilisi Andria Basilaia. Lora Guerra, the wife of the great Italian poet also attended the ceremony remotely.
Seedlings of old apple and almond trees specially brought from Italy and donated by the Forli Association Patriarchi della Natura to the Tbilisi Botanical Garden were planted in the name of prominent representatives of Italian and Georgian culture.
This corner of the Tbilisi Botanical Garden, like the Forgotten Fruit Garden created by Tonino Guerra in his native novel, was called the Forgotten Fruit Alley. Other Italian and local tree species will be added to the alley in the future.
The initiative has a symbolic significance and indicates the cultural proximity between Italy and Georgia and the great interest in the art of Tonino Guerra and Federico Fellini in Georgia. Recently, the Italian Embassy held an event dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the two Italian artists.
(Photo courtesy of Tbilisi City Hall)
