The history of the historic Garden Garzoni
garden and the Villa in Collodi boys garzoniProgettato in the eighteenth century Lucchese architect Ottaviano Diodati, opens like a beautiful theater, with water fountains and ponds large and stellate.
Next to the grandeur of the Villa Garzoni, also called the one hundred windows, it was inevitable concoct the magnificent garden that still remains intact in its splendor. Skylit garden already set in the seventeenth century to the villa by the powerful Garzoni, originally of fish, the Ghibellines, who after the death of Castruccio had suffered the confiscation of property, the notice and exile.
Sheltered in Lucca, where he had risen to the highest offices of state, when the old house to build a taste for provocation and the challenge he had brought back to this site, which was on the old border between the Grand Duchy and the Republic of Lucca.
The first certain of the villa dates back to 1633 and to the Marquis of Alexander Roman boy who probably was also the first architect of the Garden, in 1652, already outlined in its current form, enriched with statues of important water features in the next century.
The slight, pleasure-loving atmosphere of the house reached its peak in the hall of the baths, or bath, where the ladies and the knights could engage in malicious glances between splashes of water, mirrors and mazes in the green. |
