The complex of the villa sets on the Trinità Hill, only 3 km far from the historic centre, in a luxuriant garden of 7 hectares; in the east side it overlooks the wide plain crossed by Trasimeno Road, the most important road of the ancient town of Perugia.
It is a rare example of a nearly lost way of life with its refined taste of residence of other times, immersed in the vastness of a property of olive-groves and woods, suitable for riding a horse. The villa is composed of few asymmetric elegant buildings, which are enclosed by a dry wall.
There are 8 approach roads with 8 beautiful gates made of wrought iron.
The predominant colours are ochre and green, the colours of the typical houses of Umbria in the end of the century. The villa rose from the ruins of a fifteenth century convent and it assumed the current structure in the end of the nineteenth century, when became the Summer residence of commendee F. Cesaroni, who was parliamentarian of the kingdom.
The subsequent owners, like the count G.B. Rossi Scotti and the marquis Campari, like commendee Arrigo Sarti and engineer Massimo Spagnoli have enriched the interiors of the villa without changing its aspect.
The last owner as well has entirely renewed the structure using high quality materials and keeping intact the architectural spaces. The main residence is divided into 3 floors (basement, ground floor and first floor). The variety of spaces and the sumptuousness and aristocracy of interiors lend themselves to events of importance, glamorous weddings, launchings of selected products, literary prize-givings , débuts.
Ground floor: through a hortus conclusus (closed garden) it is possible to go inside the refined and luminous rectangular hall, which has walls decorated with stucco works representing vine-leaves and oriental themes of the Renaissance; there is an elegant passage-way, decorated with superb and slender metopes made of golden stucco, from which a suggestive staircase branches off. There are also 2 wonderful rooms, one is sober and elegant, the other bigger and more sumptuous with its friezes, show-cases and mirrors. Both the rooms are perfect for little refined receptions and business lunches. Outside in the east side a wide terrace decorated with a graceful wrought iron railings surrounds the |
