Turkish garden designer Nilufer Danis evokes the spirit of a pilgrimage to Spain's Camino de Santiago at the launch of London's Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival. Nilufer Danis, the Turkish award winning garden designer, has recreated the essence of the world-famous Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in the grounds of the palace of one England’s most notoriously anti-Catholic monarchs, King Henry VIII. The garden is a star attraction at the annual Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, the mischievous little sibling of the prestigious .
Over the years Hampton has earned an international reputation for experimentation and cutting-edge design with a twist. Other gardens jockeying for prominence at the Festival include the Lion King Anniversary Garden, that takes inspiration from Disney’s award-winning musical and the African landscape in which it’s set, and The Garden of Renewal, inspired by the interplay of birth, growth, decay. Danis’ garden, The Way of St James, celebrates the culture and nature of the Gallica region of Spain and its most famous event, the centuries old pilgrimage.
It draws inspiration from the St James' life and the pilgrims’ journey to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia’s regional capital and the reputed burial site of St James. A statue of a smiling woman sitting at its heart of the garden, symbolises St James’ enduring spirit and the spiritual rapture felt by pilgrims as they complete the arduous 35-day walk across Galicia. Speaking to Euronews C.
