The vision of the New Jerusalem that John of Patmos records in the last two chapters of Revelation depicts the Holy City, the kingdom of God on earth, with a series of characteristics that relate it openly to the biblical idea of the Earthly Paradise. Like the Lydian and Persian gardens whose architecture survives in the Chahar Bagh style (6.7), the New Jerusalem is perfectly square and crossed by a river that runs along the city’s main street. This river departs from the throne of God and of the Lamb and irrigates the tree of life, which lies on both shores. The appearance of this topology of the heavenly city confirms our intuition that the hunting ground, through the paradeisos, represents not only the union of the material and the spiritual, the concretion of the Kingdom in the world, but also the basic metaphor of the organization and domestication of the landscape and its conversion into political territory.