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Villa Patrizia

As of late Roman times "cimbronium”was an enormous estate of eclectic tastes and grand creative skills, who Beckett met in England, and to whom he assigned the restoration work on the estate, that the dream was to come true... While the layout of the grounds was influenced by certain existing elements such as the central renaissance avenue established by the Fusco family, A number of different episodes and various routes were knowingly or ganised and lead oil from the main axis which crosses the property from north to south

Luxuriant vegetation which produced fine timber for naval use. Villa Patrizia (XIth century) belonged to the noble Acconciajoco family then, subsequently, to the enormously wealthy and influential Fusco family, related to the Pitti, D'Angid and Sasso families. Possession of these fertile lands was always much desired, for their dominant and strategic position but most of all for their broad expanses of land to farm, more or less unique compared to the rough terrain of the Ravello area. om that group of intellectuals and aesthetes which made the Grand Tour, who came to Ravello on the advice of friends to recover from a serious form of depression which had affected him after the early death of his much loved wife. The intense happiness which this magical place caused him lead him to buy.-the estate in 1904, determined to bring it back to life, to turn it into a work of art, "the finest place in the world".

The Avenue of Immensity

Walk on along the shady of Immensity, thickly covered initially Dy climbing of unusual length (the sweet-smelling bunches can reach to six feet in full bloom!), . To your left, beyond the great, multi-coloured nortensias and wonderful prunus serrulata, you can make out the figures of "the 4 Dancers". Accompanied by imposing pmus pinea and platanus orientalis, among an infinite variety of exotic flowers and plants (to your left, a splendid example of Nolina Recurvata which is more than 150 years old), eighteenth century terracotta vases and bronze statues of Greek warriors, make your way slowly along the avenue, as if in anticipation of the spectacle that will shortly appear, and where in May 1880 as the backdrop to the ecstatic territory.