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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: anita on January 03, 2013, 07:01:17 PM

Title: Advice on visiting Italy
Post by: anita on January 03, 2013, 07:01:17 PM

Hi,
I thought I'd tap into the Forum brains trust for advice on garden tours to Italy.
I've got three weeks around April/May (actual days yet to be determined) to spend visiting gardens in Italy.
With just three weeks (including the travel time from Australia) I've decided to focus on Rome and Florence and surrounding regions...
I'm debating what I should do. Should my partner and I go for a group garden tour... And if so any recommendations on tour firms.. Or should we just organise our own itinerary? I don't want to join a group of people who just want to route march through the sights.
Any recommendations? This is my first trip to Italy.
The list of gardens at the moment includes:

Rome
Ninfa,                         
Villa d’Este             
Villa Lante,           
Villa Farnese 
Villa Aldo Brandinin   
Giardina della Landriana,
Villa Adriana (Emperor Hadrian’s Villa)
 

Florence
Villa Castello
Bobboli,
Villa Gamberaia
Villa Medici at Castello  (Villa Reale)
Le Balze Garden

Within striking disstance of Rome/Florence
Villa La Foce
La Mortella

Thanks Anita

Title: Re: Advice on visiting Italy
Post by: Paddy Tobin on January 03, 2013, 07:34:05 PM

If I could visit only one of the gardens listed it would be Ninfa. If two, I would add La Mortella.