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
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.
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.
Zukic wanted the 10-hectare (25-acre) Starry Night park to be part of a larger complex offering a retreat to visitors. He planted more trees and created 13 lakes using existing natural streams.
