Italy’s Masone Labyrinth, made up of 200,000 bamboo plants covering 17 hectares, is the world’s largest labyrinth. It was built by Franco Maria Ricci, inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, and includes art galleries, a library, and overnight suites. A maze challenges walkers to find an exit, while a labyrinth is for meditation and easy wandering.
Greece may lay claim to the most famous labyrinth, built by the mythical Daedalus, but Italy takes the title for the largest labyrinth, plus it’s real. The Masone Labyrinth is located near the northern Italian city of Parma and is made up of 200,000 bamboo plants covering 17 hectares (7 acres) and surrounding a pyramid-shaped chapel. The labyrinth was built by Franco Maria Ricci, a former publisher who sold his empire to build the labyrinth after being inspired by talks with Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges, who once told Ricci that being human is like living in a labyrinth. Although Borges claimed that the desert is already the largest maze anyone could imagine, Ricci spent decades building his own maze, which has eclipsed Dole’s Garden Maze in Hawaii as the largest in the world. Visitors can enjoy not only the labyrinth – which they are welcome to wander at their own pace – but also art galleries, a library and overnight suites.
It winds through labyrinths and labyrinths:
Technically, a “maze” is meant to challenge walkers to find an exit, while a “maze” is meant for meditation and easy wandering.
The first maze used to study rats was built in 1901 by a graduate student to test the creatures ability to navigate and learn from their mistakes.
One way out of virtually all mazes is to hold your right hand on a wall, which will eventually connect to the outer wall and exit.
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