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Grandi Giardini Italiani Srl
Villa Erba - Cernobbio, Como - Italy
Copyright Grandi Giardini Italiani Srl
P.I. 01151590112
P.I. 01151590112
Opening hours
Palazzo Farnese
From Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30AM - 7:30PM
(ticket office closes at 6:45pm)
Park
From Tuesday to Saturday, from 8:30 am to one hour before sunset, only in
favorable weather conditions
Closed on Monday, January 1st, December 25th
(check special openings on the website)
GREEN PASS: in compliance with the government regulations in force, provided for all places of culture in Italy (ref. D.L. of 23 July 2021), from 6 August 2021 it is mandatory that visitors show the Green Pass accompanied by a valid identity document to access the Palazzo Farnese.
The provisions do not apply to children under the age of 12 and persons with specific medical certification.
Entrance
Full price: € 5.00
Concessions: € 2.00
Contacts
Piazza Farnese, 1
01032 Caprarola (VT)
T. +39 0761 646052
www.polomusealelazio.beniculturali.it
Lazio
Giardini di Palazzo Farnese
Caprarola, Viterbo
How to reach
By car
From the A1 take the exit Magliano Sabina direction in Civita Castellana. Continue on SS3 Until Your DESTINATION in Caprarola.
By plane
Distance Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport: 86km
On the bus
Cotral Line from Rome or Viterbo
From the A1 take the exit Magliano Sabina direction in Civita Castellana. Continue on SS3 Until Your DESTINATION in Caprarola.
By plane
Distance Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport: 86km
On the bus
Cotral Line from Rome or Viterbo
History
Villa Farnese di Caprarola was designed by the architect Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.
There is a close correlation between the villa and gardens, conceived
as a unity even if they have since been progressively changed.
Vignola achieved a synthesis between nature and architectural artifice
using the hillside springs to feed the fountains and making good use of his experience in France to embellish the gardens. He created the ''lower (or secret) gardens'' by excavating the hillside and designed them following a square module, used again as a sub-module inside them for the small parterres. The perspective axes of the two secret gardens form a fan from the north-east and south-west façades and finish, through drawbridges, at the ''Satyrs' Fountain'' and the ''Venus rising from the Sea'' Fountain.
The hillside avenue behind the villa was levelled and planted so that
Cardinal Farnese and his guests could enjoy tamed nature, architecture
and water games. The last intervention was that of the ''Great Upper Gardens'' in 1584, along the hillside in a route dotted with fountains with the Pleasure House at the end. The layout of the garden dates back to Vignola, but the first executor was Giacomo Del Duca: he was responsible for the Pleasure Palace, the Great Garden, the border, water chain and the enclosure with the Belvedere Fountain. In 1620 Girolamo Rainaldi replaced him and introduced a theatrical style with the terrace of the ''Caryatids'', the connection with the Upper Garden, the pavilions at the beginning of the border and the modifications to the Glass Fountain.
There is a close correlation between the villa and gardens, conceived
as a unity even if they have since been progressively changed.
Vignola achieved a synthesis between nature and architectural artifice
using the hillside springs to feed the fountains and making good use of his experience in France to embellish the gardens. He created the ''lower (or secret) gardens'' by excavating the hillside and designed them following a square module, used again as a sub-module inside them for the small parterres. The perspective axes of the two secret gardens form a fan from the north-east and south-west façades and finish, through drawbridges, at the ''Satyrs' Fountain'' and the ''Venus rising from the Sea'' Fountain.
The hillside avenue behind the villa was levelled and planted so that
Cardinal Farnese and his guests could enjoy tamed nature, architecture
and water games. The last intervention was that of the ''Great Upper Gardens'' in 1584, along the hillside in a route dotted with fountains with the Pleasure House at the end. The layout of the garden dates back to Vignola, but the first executor was Giacomo Del Duca: he was responsible for the Pleasure Palace, the Great Garden, the border, water chain and the enclosure with the Belvedere Fountain. In 1620 Girolamo Rainaldi replaced him and introduced a theatrical style with the terrace of the ''Caryatids'', the connection with the Upper Garden, the pavilions at the beginning of the border and the modifications to the Glass Fountain.
