Garden at Villa Lante

An exceptional example of Renaissance landscape architecture from the Mannerist period. Built on a slope overlooking Rome, here intricate gardens, sculptures and water cascade down the hill in a highly orchestrated design. This view captures the parterre featuring quadrants of low hedges in organic patterns; they surround a square basin with bridges to a round central fountain crowned by the sculptures of four moors holding aloft a coat of arms. The Eternal City looms in the distance.