Collodi Butterfly House

the Collodi Butterfly House is inhabited by hundreds of butterflies originating in the tropical zones or equatorial - where butterflies are the largest and colored. Are alive and free to fly in a tropical garden, lush plants, flowers and fruits thanks to perfect reconstruction of the environment of origin. The Collodi Butterfly House reported in Garzoni gardens a wonderful population of butterflies, that recalls those that flew between the flowerbeds before agricultural pollution and industrial typical of contemporary life transforming their appearance and to reduce their presence. The Collodi Butterfly House is a splendid is a splendid building-serra in stone and glass self-supporting, bright and fully air conditioned for temperature and humidity. It was designed and built by Emilio Faroldi and Maria Pilar vectors of the study Faroldi and associated, unique example of the use of the structural glass (spider-glass) for this purpose. The Collodi Butterfly House was erected in the place where stood greenhouses in disuse. It was inaugurated in 2007 and fits so well with the Garzoni garden that it is as if we had always been.

The butterflies, from flocks specialized in the form of chrysalis, develop here in a special incubator, however prove to be so well in this environment that you reproduce spontaneously. For this reason, if you look closely, you can identify their eggs on the leaves or on the branches or leaves gnawed up to the stem from the caterpillars that are provided with energy devouring the parties keep their preferred plant before to hang from a branch and form the chrysalis from which emerge the throttle.