"Here is Ninfa, here are the fabulous ruins of a city that with its walls, towers, churches, convents and settlements lies half submerged in the swamp, buried under very thick ivy. In truth, this locality is more graceful than Pompeii itself, whose houses rise rigidly like mummies drawn out of volcanic ashes. "
The garden of Ninfa located in the territory of the municipality of Cisterna di Latina, on the border with Norma and Sermoneta.
At the end of the nineteenth century Ada Bootle Wilbraham, wife of Onoraro Caetani, with two of her gods on her six children, Gelasio and Roffredo, took care of Ninfa deciding to create an Anglo-Saxon style garden; the first cypresses, holm oaks, beeches and roses were planted in large numbers, and some ruins were restored, including the baronial palace, which became the family's country house, today the headquarters of the Roffredo Caetani Foundation.
The creation of the garden followed a free and spontaneous direction, without an established geometry. Marguerite Chapin, wife of Roffredo Caetani, continued the care of the garden by introducing new species of shrubs and roses.
Garden of Ninfa
Address: Via Provinciale Ninfina, 68
Phone: 06 5555 28255
Site:
http://www.fondazionecaetani.org/Location inserted by
Anna Carla Angileri