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Villa Cetinale, Sovicille

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Villa Cetinale, Sovicille, Province of Siena [1]

 

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Villa Cetinale, Sovicille

   
   

Villa Cetinale is a 17th-century Baroque villa and Italiana gardens in Tuscany. The property is located in the hamlet of Cetinale near Sovicille, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of Siena, in Tuscany, Italy. The property is best known for the expansive gardens, arrayed in classic symmetry, as well as for its also formal woodland gardens.

History

17th century

The residence was originally a modest building surrounded by farm dwellings, owned by Fabio Chigi (1599-1667). Chigi employed Benedetto Giovannelli, a local architect, to design the plans for a new villa, whose construction occurred between 1651 and 1655. After Fabio Chigi became Pope Alexander VII, in 1655, work came to a halt.

In 1676, the villa and lands were inherited by the Pope's nephew, Cardinal Flavio Chigi (1631-1693), Prince of Farnese, Duke of Ariccia and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire. Cardinal Chigi employed the architect Carlo Fontana in 1680 to redesign the villa, originally called Villa Chigi, and plan the gardens. Fontana was a former pupil of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. His design transformed the villa into the Roman Baroque style.

After the death of Cardinal Chigi in 1693 it passed into his family, the Chigi-Zondadari, where it remained into the late 20th century.

20th century

Villa Cetinale, by then in a somewhat ruinous state, was acquired by British Viscount Antony Lambton (1922–2006) in 1977. Lambton retired there, following a personal scandal in England. For nearly three decades he meticulously restored the villa and the gardens' built features and plantings. He died in Siena in 2006.[1] It is now available for private rental, with garden tours available by arrangement.[2]

British writer and garden design aficionado Harold Acton translated the Latin inscription on Villa Cetinale as follows:

Whoever you are who approach, that which may seem horrible to you is pleasing to me. If it appeals to you, remain. If it bores you, go away. Each is equally agreeable to me.

 

    Il romitorio di Cetinale
Villa Cetinale, clocktower  

Two hundred steps - the so-called "Scala Santa" (Saint Staircase) - lead to the Romitorio, a building added in 1716


  Il romitorio di Cetinale
         

Mappa Villa Cetinale, Sovicille | Ingrandire mappa


Park Villa Cetinale


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Villa Cetinale, Giardino [1]

 

Garden

Main axis

The plan of the Villa Cetinale gardens is in the Giardino all'italiana style, with a strong solo primary axis.

It begins at the lower terminus far below the house, with a gigantic statue of Hercules. The axis extends across the natural and agricultural landscape, and the midway immediate villa surroundings, to its upper terminus, a hermitage—Romitorio high on the hill above.

On axis at the front façade of the villa is the Limonaia, a semi-walled potted lemon garden, accented with statues by Giuseppe Mazzuoli (1644-1725) and 'Baroque style' topiary. On axis at the rear façade a symmetrical double staircase rises to the primary villa entry, at the piano nobile ('floor one') level, following the Roman custom of reserving the ground floor unnumbered for the domestic service uses.

Behind the villa an avenue (allée) of Italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) defines the axis through gardens and fields to the base of the hill. A significant and very long stone stairway carries the axis up through the hillside's woodlands, to the focal point of the hermitage tower.

Other elements

From beside the villa a secondary axis extends northeast across a balustraded terrace, and through an olive grove to a very tall masonry bell tower, with clock.

There are several original non-axial elements of the gardens. Northeast of the main axis beyond the bell tower a garden walkway proceeds around a hill, going through the 'Holy Woods' with stone statues and sculptures of animals, also by Giuseppe Mazuoli. West across the axis a long looping walkway passes through open woods past a series of religious shrines with statues. Olive groves are also part of the landscape surrounding the villa and long axis.

The Lambton restoration also developed new off-axis garden terraces and flower gardens beside the villa.


Album Villa Cetinale

 

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Villa Cetinale  

Villa Cetinale, Sovicille, vista dalla Scala Santa

 

  Villa Cetinale, Sovicille

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Gardens in Tuscany | Villa Cetinale, Sovicille

Publications

Villa Cetinale was one of the 70 gardens included by Edith Wharton in her 1904 book Italian Villas and Their Gardens, with illustrations and a plan of it. The garden is also included in the 1997 book Edith Wharton’s Italian Gardens by Vivian Russell, and featured on the cover.

 

 

Photo album Abbey of Sant'Antimo           

Galleria fotografica Montagnola Senese



   
Villa Celsa, Sovicille   SovicillePalazzoAlPiano4   Cappella della fattoria di Malignano (Sovicille)

Villa Celsa

 

 

Palazzo al Piano, Territory of Sovicille, Montagnola Senese

 

  Cappella della fattoria di Malignano (Sovicille)
Ponte della Pia – Molli - Marmoraia - Monte Maggio – Monteriggioni   Ponte della Pia, Rosia
Il Ponte della Pia
  Ponte della Pia
Ponte della Pia – Monteriggioni  

 

 

 

Ponte della Pia - Molli

 

CAI 100, Eremo di Santa Lucia (Rosia)   Eremo di Santa Lucia (Rosia)  

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CAI 100, Eremo di Santa Lucia (Rosia)   Eremo di Santa Lucia (Rosia)  

Il torrente Rosia e il Ponte della Pia.

 

   
   

 

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Podere Santa Pia



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Podere Santa Pia, con una vista indimenticabile sulla Maremma Toscana

 

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Ponte della Pia

Ponte della Pia - Monteriggioni | 19 km

Ponte della Pia - Montarrenti - Pieve di San Giovanni Battista a Molli | 8 km circa

Pieve a Molli - Montarrenti - Ponte della Pia | 8,19 km


Sovicille

Anello SovicilleSan Giusto – Villa Cetinale – Pieve di Pernina – Ancaiano Castello di Celsa

Anello Sovicille | Sovicille - San Giusto - Villa Cetinale - Il romitorio di Cetinale -Pieve di Pernina - Villa Celsa - Ancaiano - Canonica Trecciano



 
 
   


Podere Santa Pia
 

Podere Santa Pia

 

 
La Maremma und Isola Monte Christo
Podere Santa Pia, giardino
Podere Santa Pia
         

[1] Photo by Rein Ergo.

 

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