Villa del Colle del Cardinale
Strada per Sant'Antonio 47
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,
Tags
Giardino storico formale
Filippo Fagioli
