Monty Don's Italian Gardens

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.

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

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 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 Villa Adriana, Tivoli The remains of the garden set out for Roman Emperor Hadrian around his palace.
1.   Italy Villa d'Este, Tivoli A spectacular Renaissance garden with many fountains. Website
1.   Italy Borghese gardens, Rome Public city garden, briefly mentioned
1.   Italy Sacro Bosco, Bomarzo a Mannerist monumental complex, populated by grotesque sculptures and small buildings located among the natural vegetation
1.   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 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 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 Villa Gamberaia, Florence characterized now by its eighteenth-century terraced garden, that Don calls "enormously influential"
2.   Italy Villa I Tatti, Florence Cecil Pinsent's first Italian Garden, influencing the notion Renaissance gardens were devoid of color except green
2.   Italy La Foce, Val d'Orcia Cecil Pinsent's last Italian Garden, which Don considers "perhaps his greatest"
3.   Italy Torrecchia Vecchia, Cisterna di Latina notable English-style gardens
3.   Italy Royal Palace of Caserta, Caserta The 120 ha garden is a typical example of the baroque extension of formal vistas
3.   Italy Villa il Tritone, Sorrento private garden website
3.   Italy a terraced lemon field, Amalfi
3.   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 La Mortella, Ischia a spectacular subtropical and Mediterranean garden developed since 1956 by the late Susana Walton Website
3.   Italy an example of "urban farming" in Naples
3.   Italy Garden of Ninfa, Cisterna di Latina called "the most romantic garden in the world"
4.   Italy Orto botanico di Padova, Padua One of the world's oldest academic botanical gardens
4.   Italy Villa Pisani, Stra Monte gets lost in the maze of "the Queen" of the world famous venetian gardens, Villa Pisani
4.   Italy Villa Marlia, Lucca
4.   Italy Lake Como Don takes a boat trip with Judith Wade, founder of Grandi Giardini Italiani[5]
4.   Italy Villa Melzi d'Eril [it], Bellagio website
4.   Italy Ingegnoli , Milan One of Italy's oldest nurseries
4.   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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