The Gardens
The Park of Villa Reale di Marlia, covering 16 hectares, combines the Italian Garden and romantic landscape design with the Camellia Walkways, the Lake of Villa Reale, the Spanish Garden, the Lemon Garden and the Green Theatre, offering visitors a journey through history, botany and monumental scenery in the heart of Tuscany.
Camellia Walkways The Camellias are one of the jewels in the crown of Marlia and are a great reason to visit Villa Reale. You can find over 40 varieties of Camellia japonica inside the Park, including some of the[...]
Lake at Villa Reale The Lake is an important part of the Park’s ecosystem, and one of the key attractions for a visit to the Villa.In addition to its aesthetic value, the lake has a practical function, to enable[...]
Italian Garden The original Italian garden of the Bishop’s Villa, from the 16th century, was made up of various levels and divided into walled quads with avenues and pergolas supported by columns.Following the transformations over the years, two elegant[...]
Spanish Garden The Spanish Garden at Villa Reale (also known as the flower garden) was designed around 1924 by the landscape architect Jacques Greber, employed by the Pecci-Blunt family to modernise the area around the Bishop’s Villa. In full[...]
Lemon Garden The Lemon Garden, like the Water Theatre and the Green Theatre, forms part of what remains of the baroque layout given to the Park of Villa Reale by the Orsetti brothers in the 1600s. This splendid garden,[...]
Green Theatre The Green Theatre at Villa Reale is the oldest in Europe. This extraordinary example of ‘green architecture’ was commissioned by the Orsettis and created between 1664 and 1670. It is characteristic of classic Italian garden design, and[...]
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