What is it?
Descrizione
Beyond the portal carved in Lecce stone from which orthogonal avenues depart, you find yourself in a symmetrical checkerboard with a late 16th-century fountain in the center. The atmosphere here is magical.
A pergola of one hundred and sixty columns adorns it all around, enriched by finely decorated local stone seats and tree essences, which, playing with the sun, create evanescent effects of lights and shadows.
Ancient varieties of fruit trees, such as St. John's pear, loquats, walnuts, and then the citrus grove, rose garden, herbs and ornamental plants will tell you about aristocratic worlds gone by. The vivid colors and strong scents will transport you to those slow afternoons spent in literary otium and beyond. Just as the local feudal lords and nobles of old used to do, who used to beguile their time here to spend in the village, waiting for their return to their aristocratic residences in Lecce or Naples.
A pergola of one hundred and sixty columns adorns it all around, enriched by finely decorated local stone seats and tree essences, which, playing with the sun, create evanescent effects of lights and shadows.
Ancient varieties of fruit trees, such as St. John's pear, loquats, walnuts, and then the citrus grove, rose garden, herbs and ornamental plants will tell you about aristocratic worlds gone by. The vivid colors and strong scents will transport you to those slow afternoons spent in literary otium and beyond. Just as the local feudal lords and nobles of old used to do, who used to beguile their time here to spend in the village, waiting for their return to their aristocratic residences in Lecce or Naples.
