Garden

The entire exhibition within the museum focuses on Alghero’s precious red treasure. The same theme permeates the outdoor setting of the Villa’s garden, filled with decorative elements depicting coral branches and designed to immerse visitors in an atmosphere of the underwater world.

Inspired by Greek mythology, the branches of the coral installation in the garden actually reach out to the sides rather than upwards as a natural coral growth would tend to, thus portraying the body’s extremities and the outflow of blood. The water gods listed and lined up around the garden in a circular manner evoke the universality of coral throughout the marine world. Even the touches of colour on the columns echo the decorative panels of this Art Nouveau villa.