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Park based on Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting is the realisation of a 20-year dream
- To match the painting, 130,000 bushes of lavender in six different shades were planted, as well as other medicinal and aromatic herbs
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Amid the green hills and meadows of central Bosnia, a local businessman has realised his long-held dream: recreating one of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous paintings, The Starry Night, in the form of a nature park.
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Halim Zukic from the town of Visoko decided to create a park after buying some land and a cottage in a nearby village 20 years ago, but he had no clear idea of what it should look like.
Then, six years ago, as he stood on a hill watching tractors in a hay meadow, he noticed their spiral-shaped wheel tracks in the earth, which reminded him of the swirling motifs in Van Gogh’s canvas from 1889.
“From that moment, I was no longer in doubt,” Zukic said. But his vision took time, money and effort to realise.
![Halim Zukic and his daughter Emina stand amid lavender bushes and shrubs at the Starry Night park in Visoko. Photo: Reuters Halim Zukic and his daughter Emina stand amid lavender bushes and shrubs at the Starry Night park in Visoko. Photo: Reuters](https://img.i-scmp.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2024/08/14/3bb6e21c-58a7-4a9b-a080-12a1f072497f_0693e825.jpg)
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