Cypress alley at Villa Torrigiani

The largest cypress avenue in Italy stretches approximately 700 metres from the facade of Villa Torrigiani's main building to the end of a small hamlet, once intended for servants. Their shadows were baked out by the Torrigiani family a century and a half ago, when they uprooted parts of the garden estate to create a radically 'English' park. But the original cypress avenue lived on, nourished by a love for the style of their Baroque predecessor, Nicola Santini, who built his villa in the second half of the 17th century.

In the 19th century, Victoria Santini, who married into the Torrigiani family, undid some of the work Victoria and her family had done to the grounds, rescuing one feature from the glove maker's era and installing it back at the heart of the park. The cypress avenue. Today the villa is the property of Fabio Colonna di Stigliano, who restored the building and its grounds to their original beauty. On a map, you will find the villa in the hamlet of Camigliano, Capannori, in the municipality of Capannori, not far from Lucca, in Tuscany.

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