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Monty Don's Italian Gardens

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Monty Don's Italian Gardens
GenreDocumentary
Adventure travel
Directed byPatti Kraus[1]
StarringMonty Don
No. of episodes4
Production
ProducerBBC
Running time4 × 1 hour
Original release
NetworkBBC Two

Monty Don's Italian Gardens is a television series of 4 programmes in which British gardener and broadcaster Monty Don visits several of Italy's most celebrated gardens.

Steve Wilson composed the title and theme music on the series.[2] A book based on the series, Great Gardens of Italy, was also published.[3]

Gardens

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Ep. Country Garden Notes
1. Italy Italy Villa Farnese, Caprarola The gardens of the villa are as impressive as the building itself, a significant example of the Italian Renaissance garden period.
1. Italy Italy Villa Adriana, Tivoli The remains of the garden set out for Roman Emperor Hadrian around his palace.
1. Italy Italy Villa d'Este, Tivoli A spectacular Renaissance garden with many fountains. Website
1. Italy Italy Borghese gardens, Rome Public city garden, briefly mentioned
1. Italy Italy Sacro Bosco, Bomarzo a Mannerist monumental complex, populated by grotesque sculptures and small buildings located among the natural vegetation
1. Italy Italy Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati To provide water for the Teatro delle Acque ("Water Theater") of the garden, Aldobrandini constructed a new 8 kilometres (5 mi) long aqueduct
2. Italy Italy Villa di Castello, Florence the country residence of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, these gardens had a profound influence upon the design of the Italian Renaissance garden and the later French formal garden.[4]
2. Italy Italy Boboli Gardens, Florence a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766, representing one of the first and most important examples of the "Italian Garden", which later served as inspiration for many European courts.
2. Italy Italy Villa Gamberaia, Florence characterized now by its eighteenth-century terraced garden, that Don calls "enormously influential"
2. Italy Italy Villa I Tatti, Florence Cecil Pinsent's first Italian Garden, influencing the notion Renaissance gardens were devoid of color except green
2. Italy Italy La Foce, Val d'Orcia Cecil Pinsent's last Italian Garden, which Don considers "perhaps his greatest"
3. Italy Italy Torrecchia Vecchia, Cisterna di Latina notable English-style gardens
3. Italy Italy Royal Palace of Caserta, Caserta The 120 ha garden is a typical example of the baroque extension of formal vistas
3. Italy Italy Villa il Tritone, Sorrento private garden website
3. Italy Italy a terraced lemon field, Amalfi
3. Italy Italy Villa Cimbrone, Ravello Gardens visited by Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, T. S. Eliot, and most famously, Greta Garbo. Now a hotel website
3. Italy Italy La Mortella, Ischia a spectacular subtropical and Mediterranean garden developed since 1956 by the late Susana Walton Website
3. Italy Italy an example of "urban farming" in Naples
3. Italy Italy Garden of Ninfa, Cisterna di Latina called "the most romantic garden in the world"
4. Italy Italy Orto botanico di Padova, Padua One of the world's oldest academic botanical gardens
4. Italy Italy Villa Pisani, Stra Monte gets lost in the maze of "the Queen" of the world famous venetian gardens, Villa Pisani
4. Italy Italy Villa Marlia, Lucca
4. Italy Italy Lake Como Don takes a boat trip with Judith Wade, founder of Grandi Giardini Italiani[5]
4. Italy Italy Villa Melzi d'Eril [it], Bellagio website
4. Italy Italy Ingegnoli , Milan One of Italy's oldest nurseries
4. Italy Italy Isola Bella, Lake Maggiore "a tipsy drag queen of a garden ready to party all night long and the next day too"[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Monty Don's Italian Gardens — Man Friday Films". manfridayfilms.com.
  2. ^ "The Tall Whites - Monty Don's Italian Gardens". Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Book Review: Great Gardens Of Italy". 16 October 2011 – via www.nzherald.co.nz.
  4. ^ Isabella Ballerini, The Medici Villas, p. 32
  5. ^ "Great Italian Gardens Founder Judith Wade Interview". 22 May 2017.
  6. ^ "Monty Don's 'Great Gardens of Italy'". The Garden Clinic.
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