Forestiere Underground Gardens - Fresno Museum

Average Rating	4.5	4+ reviews from 1 sources
Yelp	4.5	4+ reviews

5021 West Shaw Avenue
Fresno, CA,93722

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 America in the early 1900s to build a citrus empire. Instead, he spent the next 40 years of his life carving out the useless farmland he had purchased for such into a habitable underground oasis adorned with luscious fruit trees and grapevines that he planted underground. He never intended to spend his life digging his way to success, but rather to free himself from the iron rule of his father and prove that he was a worthy and capable businessman. Starting in 1906 Baldassare Forestiere combined his knowledge of farming with ... more on Forestiere Underground Gardens
Dug out by hand over a 40-year period, more than 90 rooms, patios, gardens ... more on tripadvisor.com

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 ... alant2547, a user of Tripadvisor. Read full review on tripadvisor
: Beneath Fresno is a curious network of tunnels ... citysearch.com, a user of citysearch.com. Read full review on OpenList.com
5.0: Rinky A. 's review

Forestiere Underground Gardens is world ... a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp
5.0: What A Great Place

I visited this very unusual attraction August 10, 2006 and was truly amazed. People ... 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 ... gusto.com, a user of gusto.com. Read full review on OpenList.com

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