Villa dei Cedri Site Features

The villa is a restrained nineteenth-century country house rather than a Palladian one -- symmetrical, stuccoed, with a modest central pediment. It is worth seeing as a contrast: everything else built in this district is either farm structure or vineyard terrace.

The park is the better half. Mature cedars of Lebanon and other specimen trees are laid out in the informal English manner that was fashionable when the house was built, on ground that slopes gently toward the valley.

The cedars

The mature trees the villa is named for, and the largest in the town.

The public park

Free, open and genuinely used by residents rather than visitors.

Wine events

The villa hosts tastings and the spring showcase, when the interior opens.

A contrast to the hills

The one formal building in a district otherwise made of farm huts and terraced vineyards.