Gardens of the Villa Gamberaia 
facing each 
other and 
t u r n i n g 
good - hum¬ 
ored faces 
towards the 
villa. The 
others are 
surmounted 
by graceful 
vases. 
The lions 
of the terrace 
are repeated 
somewhat 
more solidly 
on two mass¬ 
ive pedestals 
that stand 
one on either 
side of the one step which separates the ter¬ 
race, on the north side of the house, from the 
carriage drive. The box hedges of Gam¬ 
beraia are as famous as its cypresses. The 
two that line this carriage drive, which runs 
from the iron entrance gates to the terrace, 
conceal, on one side, the bare walls of the 
chapel, on 
the other,the 
vines, olives 
and arti¬ 
chokes of 
the podere. 
These hed¬ 
ges are quite 
twelve feet 
high. Leav¬ 
ing them and 
the guarding 
lions, the 
gravel path 
to the left 
passes the 
chapel door, 
runs under 
an archway 
and reaches 
the wide bowling-green. This is full ioo 
yards long from end to end. From here a 
famous grove of cypresses—one of the finest 
in Italy—leads up to and forms a background 
to an eighteenth century fancy carried out in 
rock work half enclosing a fountain and sur¬ 
mounted by a balustrade on which stands a 
THE CHAPEL AT GAMBERAIA 
( On the left is the entrance drive. Through the archway on the right is the bowling-green') 
THE BOWLING-GREEN 
THE ROCK-WALLED COURT 
