Villa Cimbrone

The villa Cimbrone is a built in the 20th century residence in the Italian town of Ravello, in a large park ( Via Santa Chiara 26). It is located in the province of Salerno, Campania, on the Amalfi Coast.

History

The Scot Ernest William Beckett, later Lord Grimthorp, left in 1904 on a projecting rock, remodel approximately 350 m above sea level, originating from the 12th century Palazzo existing and create a garden. The eclectic spirit of the times accordingly, inspired by the Roman past and the medieval Orient trade of the town of Ravello, who had brought the merchants with the most diverse cultures in contact, a variety of features, combined. The property was used primarily as a center of theater life and as a meeting place for politicians and artists of his time. Today the villa houses a small luxury hotel, surrounded by a public garden. Lord Grimthorp died in 1917 and is buried in the garden in the small temple.

Garden

Access to the garden is done by a cloister, with a fountain in the middle. The word ' Villa' is the Italian for ' garden ', which is divided here into several different areas. On the one hand, the flower garden extends with its lavish splendor, between which numerous copies of Roman art are placed. In other areas of the garden old trees provide shade. A Glyzinienhecke leads to a narrow staircase that gives a clear view on stone vases, mosaics, statues and arbors. A cypress alley guides the eye to a temple with a copy of an ancient figure.

The Belvedere, a viewing platform with a balustrade adorned with marble busts, located at the end of the garden, is also the crowning glory. Situated right on the rocks sloping into the sea, it offers clear days, unsurpassed views, which extends on one side to Capri and on the other to Paestum.

The garden is open daily from 9am clock to one hour before sunset. From the building (hotel) only the cloister can be visited.

The villa in the media

The villa and garden are scenes of the broadcast in the 1980s television series Oliver Maass. The terrace is the background in the credits.

The terrace of the Villa Cimbrone is also a scene in the third part of the Sissi films from the 1950s. In Fateful Years of an Empress has, on the advice of the privy councilor, Sissi ( Romy Schneider) spend a cure in Madeira. The scenes with her cinematic and real mother, Duchess Ludovica of Bavaria ( Magda Schneider), however, were not turned on Madeira, but on the terrace of the Villa Cimbrone in Ravello.