Villa Rufolo è un complesso duecentesco legato alla famiglia di mercanti Rufolo di Ravello. La sua forma attuale unisce il tessuto medievale a trasformazioni successive, tra cui il restauro e i giardini terrazzati ottocenteschi di Francis Nevile Reid.1
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Villa Rufolo is a thirteenth-century Ravello complex associated with the Rufolo merchant family. Its medieval core combines Arab, Byzantine and local architectural and decorative traditions with later changes. Francis Nevile Reid restored the site and remade its terraced gardens in the nineteenth century. Richard Wagner’s visit in May 1880 became central to the cultural association with Parsifal, and the first Ravello Festival concerts were held here in 1953.
A record of Ravello’s medieval merchant elite, nineteenth-century heritage restoration and the cultural origins of the Ravello Festival.

