Park In Bosnia Transformed To Resemble Famous Van Gogh Painting

An aerial view of the nature park inspired by Vincent van Gogh's painting "The Starry Night" near Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on September 17.

“I was sitting here, looking at the hill behind me, and a tractor drove through the meadow that was here at the time leaving behind spiral-shaped traces. Something just clicked in my head, and I no longer had any doubts about what to do about horticulture and landscape architecture (in the park)," Halim Zulic said.

The fields of lavender, shrubs, and lakes intertwine to form a network of paths resembling the famous picture, which the troubled Dutch Postimpressionist artist painted in 1889 while he was in an asylum in France.

Zulic bought 700,000 square meters of meadows and rolling hills not far from his hometown of Visoko, near Sarajevo, with the idea of turning it into a nature park where he and others like him could retreat for some peace and solitude.He also decided to use some of this land for recreating van Gogh's iconic painting.

“Developing this project taught me what it means to have a focus in life, which then helped me understand the works of many artists, including Van Gogh. It also taught me what is the price of being focused on something for many, many years, ” Zulic said.

The unique project, which started five years ago, is almost complete and covers some 100,000 square meters of land.

The Starry Night, painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889. Van Gogh was born in 1853 and died in 1890.