Spring, with its bright green and vivid colours, is waiting for you in the enchanted gardens of Lazio. Let us discover six little known and residential green areas, all rich in history and curiosities hidden among the bushes, trees, flowers, fruits and short water courses.
Gardens of the Certosa di Trisulti
The Certosa di Trisulti in Collepardo, located among the green woods that surround Mount Rotonaria in the Ernici Mountains, preserves a beautiful Italian garden, with hedges and flowerbeds. The monastic complex also hosts a centuries-old pharmacy, where medicines, ointments and liqueurs are produced.
Collepardo is called the “Village of of Herbs”, due to the presence of many spontaneous medicinal plants. The “Ecomuseo Orto del Centauro Chirone” tells the story of the Centaur Chirone, teacher of Aesculapius and God of medicine, who healed serious wounds with herbs collected in this territory.
The Orange Garden in Sermoneta
The Orange Garden in Sermoneta, the green lung of the historic centre, offers a splendid view of the Agro Pontino. It originally served as a pomerium, an unbuildable area used by the army to defend one of the gates. In the eighteenth century, it was turned into an orange and citrus garden. This romantic place is perfect to celebrate magical weddings, while admiring the view of the Caetani Castle and the Romanesque belfry of the Church of Santa Maria.
The Landriana Gardens – Facebook @GiardinidellaLandriana
Ardea-Tor San Lorenzo hosts the Landriana Gardens, a fascinating modern park wanted by the Marquise Lavinia Taverna and redesigned by Russell Page, the famous English landscape architect.
Landriana Gardens – www.landriana.com
The Garden includes several wonders, such as the Valley of Ancient Roses along the lake, the Orange and the Olive Gardens, the White Avenue, the Blue Meadow and the Spanish Basin. It can be visited with guided tours or during the extraordinary openings in Spring and Autumn.
Vacunae Rosae in Roccantica – www.latacita.it
Also noteworthy is a visit to the Vacunae Rosae della tenuta La Tacita, outside the village of Roccantica in the heart of Sabina, expressly created for the elevation of the spirit.
Vacunae Rosae in Roccantica – www.latacita.it
This impressive garden, one of the richest in the world, hosts over five-thousands varieties of roses from different countries, such as China and the Himalaya, as well as the rosaceous kind from the nineteenth century, the splendid hybridizations from the twentieth century and many by contemporary creators. The Garden is dotted with nine fountains located on different levels and connected to each other by water channels. From each fountain, a peculiar jet of water flows, illuminated by a fibre optic lighting, which gives the place a surreal atmosphere.
Vacunae Rosae, wonderfully nestled in a natural area in the shape of an angel wing, will gratify your senses with the scent of velvety roses of a thousand colours and the relaxing birds and water sounds. The Garden is also ideal as a location for exclusive events.
The “Orto Botanico Angelo Rambelli” in Viterbo – Photo @RadioTusciaEvent
The “Orto Botanico Angelo Rambelli” in Viterbo houses a rare and exotic vegetation, a rose garden with over two hundred specimens, and a palm grove. A special section is dedicated to the plants, used in textile industry, the main economic resource of Viterbo until the end in the nineteenth century. The collection also includes plants used in perfumery such as loofah and magnolia. The alternation of different environments and ecosystems in this territory the Tuscia Viterbese unique.
Giardini del Castello Ruspoli – Vignanello – Photo @castelloruspoli.com
The Castello Ruspoli, which dominates the ancient village of Vignanello, preserves one of the most important still existing Italian gardens. It was built in 1610 at the behest of Ottavia Orsini, daughter of Giulia Farnese and Prince Pier Francesco Orsini, the creator of the suggestive Parco dei Mostri in Bomarzo.