{"id":10940,"date":"2017-10-01T20:27:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10940"},"modified":"2017-10-02T19:42:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T18:42:20","slug":"not-too-late-for-a-garden-tour-to-the-italian-lakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/not-too-late-for-a-garden-tour-to-the-italian-lakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Not too late for a garden tour to the Italian lakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10941\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/villa_balbianello_terrace_Oxford_botanica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10941\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10941\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/villa_balbianello_terrace_Oxford_botanica.jpg\" alt=\"Villa Balbianello on Lake Como in Italy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/villa_balbianello_terrace_Oxford_botanica.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/villa_balbianello_terrace_Oxford_botanica-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/gardens\/villa_del_balbianello\">Villa Balbianello<\/a> on Lake Como in Italy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Still desperate for a garden tour in 2017? I recommend the Italian Lakes. Villa Del Balbianello is on a wooded peninsula projecting into Lake Como. It was built in 1787, on the site of a Fransiscan monastery, by Cardinal Angelo Durini. Steps lead from the landing stage into a terraced garden with a beautiful loggia. It was renovated by the American General Butler Amos and given to the Fondo per l&#8217;Ambiente Italiano (FAI) in 1988. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/steven-desmond-gardens-of-the-italian-lakes-book-review-by-tom-turner\/\">guidebook to the gardens of the Italian Lakes<\/a> is also recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still desperate for a garden tour in 2017? I recommend the Italian Lakes. Villa Del Balbianello is on a wooded peninsula projecting into Lake Como. It was built in 1787, on the site of a Fransiscan monastery, by Cardinal Angelo Durini. Steps lead from the landing stage into a terraced garden with a beautiful loggia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,242,244],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10945,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions\/10945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}