Villa Cetinale

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Villa Cetinale is a 17th century villa in Tuscany, Italy, located in the hamlet of Cetinale near Sovicille and about 12 km west of Siena.
The villa, originally called Villa Chigi, was built by Cardinal Flavio Chigi, Prince of Farnese, Duke of Ariccia and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, nephew of Pope Alexander VII. He employed Carlo Fontana to plan the villa and gardens in 1680. After his death it passed into his family, the Chigi-Zondadari, where it remained until it was acquired, in a somewhat ruinous state, by Antony Lambton in 1977, following a scandal in England. Lambton retired there, meticulously restored the villa and gardens, and eventually died in Siena Hospital on 30 December 2006. The house is remarkable mainly for the scale and beauty of its gardens.
The plan of the garden is simple, consisting of a single axis, extending from below the house to a Hermitage or “Romitorio” on a hill above. At the foot of the axis stands a gigantic statue of Hercules. At the front of the house there is a walled lemon garden, decorated with statues by Mazzuoli. A double flight of steps runs up to the piano nobile on the First floor, following the Roman custom of reserving the ground floor for the domestic parts.
Cetinale was one of 70 gardens mentioned by Edith Wharton in Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904); it is also mentioned by Vivian Russell in her book Edith Wharton’s Italian Gardens (1997).

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