St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism, planted a rose garden at his early monastery in Subiaco near Rome (c. 500). The two major medieval works on garden design and horticulture were by the ...

cloisters and a garden. They also needed a medieval street, a vast expanse of land and a forest (preferably close to the monastery location). Armed with this brief the producers scoured England ...

The layout of Garden of the Cimiez Monastery (Jardin du Monastere de Cimiez) has not changed since its original construction in 1546, when it was used by the monks as their orchard and vegetable ...