Italian Garden Hotel Short Breaks
Return to Garden Short Breaks Home PageTuscany Garden Short Break: The beautiful countryside of Tuscany has been popular with garden makers since Roman times. Pliny had a villa here and the area has many renaissance villa gardens made by the Medici family. Staying in Florence, it is easy to visit: Giardino di Boboli, Villa Gamberaia, Villa Reale, Villa Medici di Careggi Garden, Parco Demidoff, Villa Medici - Fiesole
Tivoli Garden Short Break: Tivoli is 30 km east of Rome and was known to the Romans as Tibur. The town has a scenic location at the point where the plain of the Roman Campagna meets the foothills of the Sabine Hills. The town is built around the falls of the Aniene river and has a circular temple overlooking the gorge. One of the most spectacular late renaissance gardens (Villa d'Este) is in the town and and the most magnificent palace garden in the entire Roman world (Villa Adriana) is on the edge of the plain, below the town. The Villa Aldobrandini is about 30 km to south via the A1 Autostrada.
Neopolitan Garden
Short Break: The most interesting garden in Naples itself is
that of the Santa
Chiara Cloister. The streets of Naples probably have more of the air
of a Roman town than any other town in Italy but the gardens for which
the city was once famed have not survived. Naples is however a good base
for visits to gardens on the islands of Capri (San
Michele), Ischia (La
Mortella), and also for visits to the famous gardens of Caserta,
and Pompeii (where
the best-preserved domestic gardens from Europe’s classical age are to
be found).
