Cypress and other trees flank a long staircase within the Giusti Palace gardens in Verona, Italy.

The Italian Renaissance gardens were planted in 1580 and are regarded as some of the most beautiful Renaissance gardens in Europe, a splendid park of terraces climbing upon the hill. They include a parterre and hedge maze, and expansive vistas of the surrounding landscape from the terrace gardens. First, only two square parterres right and left hand of the cypress way were designed, and a maze behind the right one, as figured in Nürnbergische Hesperides in 1714. –Wikipedia (2024)

Photographer Franz Goerke may have taken this photograph in the Fall of 1898, when he is known to have been photographing in Italy as part of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land for the inauguration of the Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem.