Forestiere Underground Gardens - Fresno Museum

  • Address: 5021 West Shaw Avenue,Fresno, CA,93722
  • Phone: +1 559 271 0734
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Average Rating
4.5
4+ reviews
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Yelp
4.5
4+ reviews
Forestiere Underground Gardens
5021 West Shaw Avenue
Fresno, CA,93722

Forestiere Underground Gardens Details

Descriptions from Across the Web

  • Baldassare Forestiere was the ingenious creator and builder of a large maze of underground rooms and passageways that he patterned after the ancient catacombs,and which can still be seen today in Fresno, California. A young and naive Sicilian immigrant with no formal education, he came to Ame... more on Forestiere-historicalcenter.com
  • Dug out by hand over a 40-year period, more than 90 rooms, patios, gardens and courtyards lie underneath ... more on TripAdvisor

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4.0
Unusual and interesting site

Visited the Forestiere Underground Gardens last week. It is a fascinating and unusual experience. It is not really a garden-it's actually an underground house built around 100 years ago with some plants and fruit trees growing out through holes in the ground. The purpose was to build (cheaply) a ... alant2547, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor

Beneath Fresno is a curious network of tunnels built by Baldasare Forestiere, an Italian immigrant who previously worked on the New York City subway system. Using ... citysearch.com, a user of citysearch.com. Read full review on OpenList.com

5.0
Rinky A. 's review

Forestiere Underground Gardens is world famous --although most a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp

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5.0
What A Great Place

I visited this very unusual attraction August 10, 2006 and was truly amazed. People who enjoy things like visitng caves, catacombs and botanical gardens can get a sampling of each in this one visit. A underground house with scattered rooms connected by tunnels and plants growing in most rooms. ... BobH3, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on TripAdvisor

User Review

This was a really interesting place! It's not so much a garden- I was expecting a lot of plants underground, ... gusto.com, a user of gusto.com. Read full review on OpenList.com

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