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The Villas and Gardens of Rome and the Latium The Villas and Gardens of Rome and the Latium Join us on 26 May 2020 for a 6 day tour of Italian Renaissance gardens around Rome. Towards the end of May the climate will be perfect and all the gardens that we plan to visit will be in exemplary order ! Index Category Transportation Dates Spring Garden Tours Luxury Coach 26 May 2020 Location Cost Lunches Itinerary Italy € 2492 3 included Grade Flights Breakfast What’s included Easy Garden Tours Excluded 5 included Why travel with us? Days Single Supplement Welcome Drinks 6 € 400 Included Contact us Nights Group 5 15-20 Accommodation Tour Booklet Luxury 4* Hotel On Arrival The International Garden Tours Specialist The Villas and Gardens of Rome and the Latium Day 1 - 26 May 2020 Arrival & Check-In to the Golden Tulip Hotel Rome Check-In to the Golden Tulip Hotel an overview of the tour and hand out Rome near Rome Fumicino Airport an information booklet. Make you own in time to meet your tour manager arrangements for Dinner at the Hotel’s and fellow garden visitors over restaurant. complimentary drinks between 1800- 1900. Your tour manager will give you Day 2 - 27 May 2020 Gardens Visited : Villa Lante, Parco dei Mostri After breakfast and check-out we travel by Pier Francesco Orsini around 1550, to Villa Lante, the first of two gardens its larger-than-life sculptures sit in great that we visit today. Villa Lante was contrast to the renaissance gardens of built in the 16th century. With its the villas in the surrounding area. It’s gardens set out in a mannerist style a very surreal and memorable place at it is said to be a perfect example of a which to end the first day of this tour. Renaissance garden. All of the three We travel by coach a short distance to ascending tiered terraces use water the 4* Park Hotel Villa Grazioli . The as their key feature: fountains, jets of Villa Grazioli was built in 1580 and is water, small basins and grottos all of rich in frescoed art works. With very which create a perfect distraction from comfortable rooms and a restaurant it the harsh summer heat. Don’t miss will be our home for the next 4 nights of the magnificent Fountain of the Giants this tour. Make your own arrangements and the Fountain of the Lamps. Many for Dinner either by choosing to eat in features of this garden are reminiscent our Hotel’s restaurant or nearby at one of the Villa d’Este which we visit on day of the restaurants recommended by 5 of this tour. After lunch (included), the Concierge. we travel by coach to visit the Parco dei Mostri (Park of the Monsters) located in a small village called Bomarzo. The Parco dei Mostri has inspired authors, painters, musicians and intellectuals for centuries. Created in a mannerist style Day 3 - 28 May 2020 Itinerary : City Visit to Rome Rome ! After breakfast we travel sites of great historical interest will into Rome by coach and meet our make this a fascinating day. We’ll have local tour guide who will stay with us lunch in Rome (included) and take our throughout the day. Rome is quite coach back to our hotel at the end of a simply an incredible city to visit. Ancient full day of sightseeing. history, world famous sites such as the Colosseum and many lesser known The International Garden Tours Specialist 2 The Villas and Gardens of Rome and the Latium Day 4 - 29 May 2020 Gardens Visited: Villa d’Este, Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa) After breakfast we travel a short construct. Named after its founder, distance north-east of Rome to Tivoli, Emperor Hadrian, the garden here also the location of the two important makes great use of hydraulic systems gardens that we will visit today: Villa to connect canals, pools, reservoirs d’Este and Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s and fountains. Drawing upon Egyptian Villa). Villa D’Este is a UNESCO world technology and Greek and Persian heritage site famous for it’s terraced influences, the Villa complex was a hillside renaissance garden and its garden oasis despite the fact that the skillful use of hydraulics to drive water site housed several thousand people throughout the garden into gushing including staff, visitors, servants and waterfalls, fountains and jets. There is slaves. Today the Villa is in ruins but even an Organ fountain! The narrow just enough remains of the complex for terraces at the top of the garden are us to be able to imagine how it used linked by steps and contain symbols of to be. We return to our hotel for the power in the form of statues. At the evening. Make your own arrangements bottom of the garden, there are fish for Dinner either by choosing to eat in ponds and an orchard. There is really our Hotel’s restaurant or nearby at one no other garden in the world like Villa of the restaurants recommended by D’Este! After lunch, we walk the short the Concierge. distance to Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa). Dating from 2 AD, this Villa and garden complex took 20 years to Day 5 - 30 May 2020 Gardens Visited: The Gardens of Ninfa, Villa Landriana After breakfast we travel to The by Russell Page. Page divided the Gardens of Ninfa. Often described as large garden into spaces following a being the most romantic garden in the geometric design. Today we can visit world, this 8 hectare (20 acre) garden the 32 different garden compartments. is set in a 105 hectare (260 acre) Four that you should not miss are the park. The ancient town of Ninfa was Orange garden, the Valley of Roses, already known in the 1st century AD the White Avenue and the Garden for its natural spring. Over the years, of Olives. This garden is constantly a cathedral and a number of churches evolving being improved. It’s a perfect were built and later destroyed. A place to end our day !We travel back nearby village was later abandoned. It to our hotel after our visit. Make your wasn’t until 1920 that planting between own arrangements for Dinner either the ruins began. Native trees, exotic by choosing to eat in our Hotel’s plants brought from all over the world restaurant or nearby at one of the as well as climbing roses and other restaurants recommended by the plants now all jostle for space in this Concierge. most exceptional of gardens. We leave Ninfa and drive toward the coast to visit Villa Landriana. Before our visit we’ll have an exclusive lunch (included). The garden at Villa Landriana was first established in 1956 and later designed The International Garden Tours Specialist 3 The Villas and Gardens of Rome and the Latium Day 6 - 31 May 2020 Gardens Visited : Villa Aldobrandini, Villa Castelgondolfo Our first garden visit of the day is to Gandolfo today sits on an area of Villa Aldobrandini, one of the most 55 hectares of which the garden is important Renaissance villas in Italy. around 30 hectares. The gardens were Dating from 1558 and remodeled in designed by the baroque architect 1603 to include water drawn from the Carlo Moderno in 1626 and restored Mondara Springs it became well known in 1929 at the request of the Pope. for its cascade and water theatre. There There is a preserved Roman theatre, is a nymphaeum proving cool refuge an 800 year old Holm oak, ancient from the oppressive summer heat umbrella pines, a magnificent 20th and a water ladder rising into oak and century parterre created by Bonomelli chestnut woods. After our visit, we overlooking the the Latium plain, a travel to the town of Castel Gandolfo, Lemon garden and a Garden of Mirrors. south east of Rome on the Alban The garden is on a grand scale and as Hills overlooking Lake Albano. Castel you would expect, everything is kept in Gandolfo is often considered as one exemplary order.After our visit you will of Italy’s most scenic towns and you have some time to visit Castel Gandolfo will have an opportunity to explore the town on foot after which we will travel town on your own after our visit to the to Rome Airport, where the tour will garden of the Apostolic Palace of Castel end in time for your onward journey. Gandolfo, the summer retreat of the Pope. Built over the ruins of Albanum Domitiani an ancient villa commissioned by Emperor Domitian in 96 A.D., Castel The International Garden Tours Specialist 4 The Villas and Gardens of Rome and the Latium WHAT’S INCLUDED NOT INCLUDED Accommodations in Luxury 4* Hotels Flights to and from Italy 5 Breakfasts Evening meals 3 Lunches Transport by luxury coach driven by an experienced driver Services of an experienced English speaking tour guide with botanical knowledge Entrance Fees for the Gardens 24-hour emergency service WHY TRAVEL WITH US? Fully Bonded Tour Operator Established Garden Tour Operator Professional Tour Guides with Expert Garden Knowledge All Destinations Visited & Carefully Selected by Us Luxury Transportation Small Tour Groups Luxury Hotels Visit Exclusive Private Gardens BOOK NOW with GardenTours.com You are only a phone call or an email Contact us for more to our travel portfolio. 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