[Monastery garden, mystical garden].
The monastery garden is a symbolic place where medicinal plants have both therapeutic use and religious meaning. The cloister is a natural as well as a spiritual space, where the monastic virtues are expressed by the geometry of the alleys and the floral composition. By the end of the Middle Ages, a couple of abbeys designed enclosed gardens (hortus conclusus) to symbolize the Garden of Mary, often represented in 14th and 15th centuries paintings.
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D001901:Botany / Q000266:history*; D005060:Europe; D049692:History, Early Modern 1451-1600; D049691:History, Medieval; D009228:Mysticism / Q000266:history*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000187:drug effects; D012068:Religion and Medicine