Fontana del Quadrato in Villa Lante

This is the last day of our holidays. As it was such a gorgeous morning we visited the beautiful garden in the town of Bagnaia. Villa Lante is the consummate example of the best period in the history of garden design: the Mannerist phase of the Italian renaissance. Designed for Cardinal Gambara, who had a modern taste for outdoor living and eating al fresco. It uses the Palladian circle and square. Every aspect of the garden is perfectly proportioned and richly detailed: a square terrace subdivided into smaller squares, a water parterre, a wonderful fountain in a central position.

This is the lowest terrace and it houses a monumental fountain which is called Fontana del Quadrato (Square Fountain) because of its shape; it was probably meant to represent a calm sea, into which the brook/river emptied (there are boats in its four sections).

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