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are the kitchen chimneys, the house having an extra 

 storey below on this side, as it is built against a 

 slope. 



VILLA MUTI, FRASCATL 



A MILE or two out, on the Grotta Ferrata road. 

 Freely shown. A most interesting garden, though 

 changed in detail from its original state. It is on 

 three levels, and its box maze is the best of the 

 kind in Italy. It is a good example of the admir- 

 ably varied treatment of a small piece of ground 

 on a very broken hillside. 



It is approached by two avenues of ilex. 



VILLA LANCELOTTI, FRASCATL 



Built about 1560. Under no pretext whatsoever 

 are visitors admitted. The garden, though beauti- 

 fiil, does not present the interesting and varied 

 features that we find in most of the other Frascati 

 villas. It consists of an oblong parterre, enclosed 

 by clipped ilex hedges and laid out in a design in 

 box. At one end is the house, with the usual water 

 theatre at the other. Here it was that Cardinal 

 Baronious wrote, at the end of the sixteenth 

 century, his learned Church History. 



VILLA PALLAVACINI, FRASCATI. 



Formerly Belpoggio. Can be freely entered, but 

 contains no remains of its once fine grounds except 



