THE "NOBLE" PARK AND THE WATER CIRCUIT
The large Italianate garden with characteristics boxwood topiary elements, central fountain and ornamental planters extends to the south, beyond the fish pond, with a monumental, two-and-a-half-kilometer perspective-view avenue, known as the stradon, the ancient Roman cardo. The avenue passes through the romantic park, with decorative mounds, grottoes, two greenhouses and century-old trees. A six-meter-wide water wheel fed the Villa's irrigation system (now under restoration), bringing water to the stables, the cellars, the lisciera (laundry) and the fish pond, generating a pond at the top of a small hill for the winter production of ice, which was kept in the icehouse grotto below (giasera). A small lake served as a reservoir for the cultivation of fruit and vegetables in the Villa's Brolo.
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