The butterfly garden

POST opens onto an amazingly beautiful natural terrace, enhanced by an area devoted to protecting biodiversity and nature discovery via a fact-finding itinerary. POST has developed Il Giardino delle Farfalle (The butterfly garden) in collaboration with the local authorities (Comune di Perugia) and a plant nursery “La Rosa del Borghetto”, as part of the environmental awareness-raising initiatives featured in the museum’s thematic choices. In Piazza del Melo, right in the heart of the city, there is an attractive, open-access, special nature habitat for these insects which are tending to disappear from our city.  

Visitors are invited to explore the garden as an insect habitat, a green space where butterflies lay their eggs and caterpillars can find nourishment, chrysalids are protected during their metamorphosis and where the adult insects can both feed and enjoy their mating and reproductive phases. Access to Il Giardino delle Farfalle (The butterfly garden) is free and a series of information panels with in-depth explanations can transform any visitor into a real amateur naturalist.