Roman and Naples area Gardens
8 Days / 7 Nights
Day 1: Rome - Naples - Santa Chiara
Arrival to Rome Airport, meet your local guide and departure to naples.
During the afternoon we'll make a visit in the church of Santa Chiara and the
internal cloister garden, the church is the centre of the city and this place
is like an oasis with peace and quite.
Dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Pompeii gardens - Villa San Michele
After breakfast visit to Pompeii, where many of the gardens has been excavated
with help of the frescoes that has been found during the years and plants that
were originally in this gardens has been planted again.
The plants growing was ivy, cut box hedge (Buxus Semperviren) or bush, cut laurel,
myrtle, acanthus and rosemary.
Back to Naples we take the hydro- boat over to Capri, and by minibus continue
to Anacapri to visit the Villa San Michele to see the villa and garden made
by Axel Munthe.
Return to Naples.
Dinner and Overnight.
Day 3: Villa La Mortella - Ischia
From Naples departure with hydro-boat to Ischia, upon arrival bus is waiting
to take us to the town of Forio where we'll visit the gardens of La Mortella
that was founded by Russel Page in the end of the 50ties for the famous compositor
Sir William Walton and his wife Lady Susana, on a steep hill over the sea.
Free time for independent Lunch.
During the afternoon return to naples. Free time
Dinner and Overnight.
Day 4: Ninfa's and Landriana's gardens
Breakfast to the Hotel and departure to Rome area, during the way stop in
the wonderful gardens of Ninfa south of Rome. Ninfa is an amazing place and
for many it is the ideal garden. We make a stop and the gardens of Landriana
50 km south of Rome, the marchioness Lavinia Taverna has been working 40 years
to grow the garden which is in different levels, with 32 different sections,
each with a theme and a mixture of English abundant growing and strict Italian
style.
Continue to Tivoli.
Dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Cloister gardens in Rome
Breakfast to the Hotel and departure to Rome. We will visit the church San
Paolo outside the wall with it’s beautiful garden.
Rome Orientation Tour.
Time at disposal.
Dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola and Villa Lante in Bagnaia
Breakfast to the Hotel and departure to Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola, was
built 1570 by Vignola whom probably even produced the garden, which is divided
in summer and winter garden which is possible to reach from the Palace through
various bridges. From the bridges a path under secular trees brings to Vignolas
masterpiece "Casino del Piacere" made in 1560, that suddenly appears
behind an arrangement of fountains and steps. The perfect balance between landscape,
architecture and sculptures makes Villa Farense one of the biggest architectonic
Italian masterpieces. In Bagnaia a small village we visit Villa Lante, a renaissance
garden.
Dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Villa D’Este in Tivoli
After breakfast we will visit Villa D’Estes gardens, Tivoli was chosen
by the roman emperors as the ideal place to build villas for summer residences.
Villa D'Este (today part of the UNESCO property) was constructed for the Cardinal
Ippolito D'Este 1559 by Pirro Ligorio, the garden is built on a steep hill in
terraces and the water is the part of main compositions.
The park is built as a classical Italian garden with low box hedges and neatly
cut bushes, the water is led in from the Aniene river through a canal spraying
in the fountains and than going back to the river.
Afternoon at disposal.
Dinner and overnight.
Day 8: Departure
Transfer to Rome airport.
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