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COSA VEDERE
WHAT TO SEE
ЧТО ПОСМОТРЕТЬ
talented landscape designers replenished its Renaissance character.
Flowerbeds, statues, stairways and artificial grottoes are arranged along
the avenue of cypresses leading up to the section with terracing. Along
the downward slope visitors enjoy fascinating arrangement, according
to which lower vegetation gives way, step-by-step, to the presence of
trees and bushes. Within the garden, there is a private collection of Latin
epigraphs, as well as a rare labyrinth formed by Buxus sempervirens.
There are also citrus tree greenhouses, with statues by Bernardino
Ridolfi, who worked together with Andrea Palladio, to whom one can
probably attribute the large mask above the garden. The artificial grotto
carved in tufo stone is rather unusual, with an entrance that makes it
look like a little temple. The belvedere makes it possible for visitors to
behold the garden in its entirety, also offering a very beautiful panora-
mic view over the city of Verona.