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Villa Lante, Viterbo의 작은 마을 Bagnaia에 있는 매혹적인 Villa
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Villa Lante - Bagnaia in Around the World in 80 Gardens
Monty Don continues his journey with a trip to the Mediterranean - cradle of European civilization. In Italy, he visits some of the elaborate high Renaissance gardens which have hugely influenced western garden design
Rome Today: Viterbo, Italy's Piece of Heaven
(RT) -- May 31, 2010
Viterbo, Italy's Piece of Heaven
Located on the outskirts of Rome -- the city of VITERBO -- is one of the best preserved medieval towns of central Italy.
Just an hour's drive north of Rome, this ancient city was the heartland of Etruscan civilization. Followed by the Romans, who used it as a vacation spot.... Interestingly, Viterbo is also the birthplace of papal conclaves where several Popes where elected before moving to Rome. However these days, Viterbo's countryside is drawing in visitors thanks to outdoor spas that offer health benefits that date back thousands of years. Including, this one:
Le Pozze di San Sisto
Find out why it's worth visiting and do just as the Romans did.....
Reporting for Rome Today,
Araceli - ITALY
Special thanks to:
Mario Bracci-Devoti
President, San Sisto Cultural Association
Terme Masse di San Sisto Le Pozze
Viterbo, Italy
mariobracci@yahoo.com
Villa Lante - Bagnaia - Viterbo - Italy
26 luglio 2011 - Foto: Stefano Ponis, Colonna sonora: Peter Rudenko
Villa Farnese, Caprarola, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy, Europe
The Villa Farnese, also known as Villa Caprarola, is a mansion in the town of Caprarola in the province of Viterbo, Northern Lazio, Italy, approximately 50 kilometres north-west of Rome. This villa should not be confused with the Palazzo Farnese and the Villa Farnesina, both in Rome. A property of the Republic of Italy, Villa Farnese is run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. The Villa Farnese is situated directly above the town of Caprarola and dominates its surroundings. It is a massive Renaissance and Mannerist construction, opening to the Monte Cimini, a range of densely wooded volcanic hills. It is built on a five-sided plan in reddish gold stone; buttresses support the upper floors. As a centerpiece of the vast Farnese holdings, Caprarola has always been an expression of Farnese power, rather than a villa in the more usual agricultural or pleasure senses. In 1504, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, the future Pope Paul III, acquired the estate at Caprarola. He had designs made for a fortified castle or rocca by the architects Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and Baldassare Peruzzi. Surviving plan drawings by Peruzzi show a pentagonal arrangement with each face of the pentagon canted inwards towards its center, to permit raking fire upon a would-be scaling force, both from the center and from the projecting bastions that advance from each corner angle of the fortress. Peruzzi's plan also shows a central pentagonal courtyard and it is likely that the later development of the circular central court was also determined by the necessities of the pentagonal plan. The pentagonal fortress foundations, constructed probably between 1515 and 1530, became the base upon which the present villa sits; so the overall form of the villa was predetermined by the rocca foundations. Subsequently, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, a grandson of Pope Paul III, and a man who was known for promoting his family's interests, planned to turn this partly constructed fortified edifice into a villa or country house. In 1556, he commissioned Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola as his architect, building work commenced in 1559 and Vignola continued to work on the villa at Caprarola until his death in 1573. Farnese was a courteous man of letters; however, the Farnese family as a whole became unpopular with the following pope, Julius III, and, accordingly, Alessandro Farnese decided it would be politic to retire from the Vatican for a period. He therefore selected Caprarola on the family holding of Ronciglione, being both near and yet far enough from Rome as the ideal place to build a country house. The villa is one of the finest examples of Renaissance architecture. Ornament is used sparingly to achieve proportion and harmony. Thus while the villa dominates the surroundings, its severe design also complements the site. This particular style, known today as Mannerism, was a reaction to the ornate earlier High Renaissance designs of twenty years earlier. Vignola, the architect chosen for this difficult and inhospitable site, had recently proved his mettle in designing Villa Giulia on the outskirts of Rome for the preceding pope, Julius III. Vignola in his youth had been heavily influenced by Michelangelo. For the villa at Caprarola, his plans as built were for a pentagon constructed around a circular colonnaded courtyard. In the galleried court, paired Ionic columns flank niches containing busts of the Roman Emperors, above a rusticated arcade, a reworking of Bramante's scheme for the House of Raphael, in the Borgo rione, Rome. A further Bramantesque detail is the entablature that breaks forward over the columns, linking them above, while they stand on separate bases. The interior loggia formed by the arcade is frescoed with Raphaelesque grotesques, in the manner of the Vatican Logge. The gallery and upper floors were reached by five spiral staircases around the courtyard: the most important of these is the Scala Regia (Royal Stairs) rising through the principal floors.
Italian Gardens - Villa La Foce, Val d'Orcia, Tuscany
The famous gardens of Villa La Foce in the Val d'Orcia, Tuscany
Check In & Check Out Reykjavik
Drinking from a waterfall and hiking for the view of a lifetime? Now that’s adventure.
B&B Mestrina (Venice, Italy)
B&B Mestrina is a small, family run establishment, situated in the modern Mestre district of Venice. By staying in this area visitors can experience a less touristy side of Venice and take advantage of more reasonably priced restaurants and shops. There is a bus stop located 50 metres away with buses taking to the historical centre of Venice and the railway station in just 10 minutes. Buses to and from the airport stop just 200 metres from the B&B.
Ostrov Elba, Itálie
Ostrov Elba je součástí Toskánského souostroví, asi 10 km od italské pevniny. Na ostrov se dostanete trajektem. Rekreační vila od Novasol na Elbě vám dává příležitost prozkoumat ostrov a všechny jeho útulné města stejně jako jeho písečné pláže. Ostrov je díky klimatu zelený. Má nekonečné obzory, hezké pláže, křišťálově čistou vodou a zajímavou historii. Počasí na ostrově je skvělé se spoustou slunce. Během pobytu na ostrově Elba budete okouzleni pocitem, který tento ostrov vytváří. Ať už máte rádi historii, sport, relaxaci nebo kombinaci všeho; Elba bude ideální bez ohledu na to, co to bude. Dovolená na ostrově Elba je bezesporu zážitek na celý život. Akvárium se nachází v Marina di Campo. Toto akvárium je více než 1000 čtverečních metrů velké s více než 150.000 litry vody. K dispozici jsou také expozice s živočichy a rostliny. Akvárium je v provozu od poloviny března do začátku listopadu. Můžete se také vydat trajektem Nautilus, který má pod vodou okno, ze kterého můžete sledovat krásu oceánu, který je plná ryb a dalších pozoruhodných věcí. K dispozici je také lanovka, která vás vyveze na horu, která je asi 1019 metrů vysoká. S NOVASOL rekreační vilou budete mít možnost zažít i mnoho dalšího. Na Elbě je mnoho atrakcí, a proto byste si měli rezervovat NOVASOL rekreační vilu ještě dnes. Novasol website: