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June 2024
Sunday 2
16:00 - 17:00

Villa del Colle del Cardinale

Strada per Sant'Antonio 47
  • Perugia
  • Umbria

The garden inside and out: sharpen the view!

Scavenger hunt
Sunday 2 June, 16:00Passed
Conditions
Reservation required to email [drm-umb.villacardinale@cultura.gov.it](mailto:drm-umb.villacardinale@cultura.gov.it)
© Ilaria Batassa

What if the garden wasn’t just outdoors? If grotesques told a little eden, where do fruits and plants grow? What if we tell you that you will discover them? We are waiting for you for a treasure hunt inside and outside the garden: we give you the clues (in rhyme), you will have to find the painted or real green heritage.

Types of events
Animation for young people
2024 Theme
The five senses in the garden
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Conditions for participation
Registration required
Type of audience
General public

About the location

Villa del Colle del Cardinale
Strada per Sant'Antonio 47
  • Perugia
  • Umbria
The ancient sixteenth-century plant of the green areas surrounding the building included an Italian garden, contemporary with the magnificent Roman examples and as still found in a cadastral map of 1729, associated with a large area of gardens, orchards, olive groves suitable for the needs. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the severe layout of the villa underwent significant transformations by the Oddi, which affected especially the environmental context surrounding the building, mitigating the austerity of the sixteenth century. The L-shaped towers were built to emphasize the front edges of the terrace and the cylindrical ones placed in the back. The space surrounding the villa was transformed and enriched, during the nineteenth century, with staircases, fountains, statues, vases, pinnacles and balustrades. However, the intervention of greater scope, carried out under the property Oddi-Baglioni, does not concern the important works on the gardens marked by the French taste,
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Giardino storico formale
Filippo Fagioli