Villa Cimbrone

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What it is	Garden
Where	Ravello, Campania
Known for	Terrace of Infinity, marble busts over the void, Bloomsbury connections, rose gardens
Period	Medieval origins; early twentieth-century Anglo-Saxon Romantic landscape

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Villa Cimbrone is a layered Ravello estate documented from the eleventh century. Its garden was substantially shaped between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a Romantic landscape of terraces, planted spaces and architectural ornaments. It lies within the UNESCO World Heritage property Costiera Amalfitana, rather than being separately inscribed.

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Documents trace the Cimbronium estate at Ravello to the eleventh century. The present place should be understood as a layered estate and garden, not as a uniformly medieval villa.¹

Its garden was substantially shaped in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a Romantic landscape of terraces, planted spaces and architectural ornaments.²

The estate's recovery involved Lord Grimthorpe, and postwar recovery and conservation were associated with Alessandro Vuilleumier.¹

Villa Cimbrone lies within the UNESCO World Heritage property Costiera Amalfitana, inscribed in 1997 under criteria (ii), (iv) and (v). It is not separately inscribed.³

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