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English translation courtesy of Camilla Zanarotti

Villa Verità was built in the late sixteenth century and later remodelled in the eighteenth century. Making use of the slope behind the palace, the garden is structured on four levels linked by monumental staircases and is reminiscent of the sumptuous creations typical of Roman Renaissance.

A large suspended parterre makes up the ground level. The central fountain is the pivot for the perfect composition of the whole: it sees the intersection of the median axis, as it relates to the back of the villa, with the perpendicular axis that crosses the garden from upstream to downstream. Beneath the parterre garden, a large rectangular grotto has been carved out of the supporting embankment; it is accessed through three openings hollowed out of the imposing rusticated retaining wall. Inside, three fountains are fed with water that, after supplying the entire upper garden, thunders down into the large fish pond.

The balustrade of the staircase that descends from the middle terrace is decorated with an interlaced pattern cut through by a rivulet of running water, a reminder of similar examples at the Villa Lante in Bagnaia or the Villa Farnese in Caprarola.

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