From the courtyard, through a small door, you enter in the park of the palace first you meat the huge Tulip-tree and its spring yellow flowers. The glance is a surprising magical colours, lights and shades.

The early park dates from XVII th century, and was in the form of "italian garden" a geometrical plan, modified in the beggining of XIX th century ( 1820) in to a romantic park, apparently a landscape of wild nature, in the reality a scenario studied in every detail: paths, hedges, flowering bushes, stone monuments, stream, fountain, trees. The two souls of the park, geometrical and romantic lives and plays together creating a special atmosphere.

The park ranges some 2 acres and is rich in high trunk trees such as Pine trees, Austrian pines, Cedars, Yews, Sequoias, libocedrus, criptomeria japonica and many othe species.

Nice paths run all along the garden which is closed by stone walls, outside fields surrounded by the century old trees. The grassland is framed by flowered bushes of many kinds: hydrangeas, rhododendrons and camellias.

In the middle of the garden stands an elliptical basin called "of the green man" traditional name coming from a, long told, tale. In it fishes and tritons swim around the water-lilys.


The long hornbeam alley ending near the All Saints Chapel and two kilometers of hedges trace the old plan of the park, on one side the Mondarello brook, over the water a nice bambous collection, marks the border on the bottom of the hill on which stands the Malingri Castle.

Mistery and fashion are brought to the flat garden by the "deer pits" (deers where used as pet animals in the XIX th century) and the so called "casa del bau" , peculiar building half way between a tower and a meditation place.

All Saints Chapel with flowering Hosta Ventricosa and hornbeam alley

 

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