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c/o Villa Erba
Largo Luchino Visconti, 4
22012 Cernobbio (COMO)
Italy

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Lazio

Giardini di Palazzo Farnese

Caprarola, Viterbo

Giardino storico
Parking
Partially wheelchair accessible
Pet not allowed

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

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.
Information
Opening hours
Palazzo Farnese
from Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
(ticket office closing at 18:45)

Gardens
January: last entrance at 15:00 (closing time 16:00)
February: last admission 3:30 p.m. (closing time 4:30 p.m.)
March: last admission 16:00 (closing time 17:00)
April to September: last admission 18:00 (closing time 19:00)
October: last admission 17:00 (closing time 18:00)
November and December: last admission 15:00 (closing time 16:00)
Entrance
Full price: € 10.00
Full price (when the gardens are closed): € 8.00
Reduced price (18 to 25 years): € 2.00
Reduced price (up to 18 years): free of charge
Contact us
Piazza Farnese, 1
01032 Caprarola (VT)

T. +39 0761 646052

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