Bagnaia On the trail

Vignola's water garden at Bagnaia, walked with a guide

Bagnaia

The water starts as a spring at the top of the garden and you walk down beside it: terraces, cascades, dripping grottoes, and a square pool waiting at the bottom.

How the day goes

  1. Meet the guide at Bagnaia, in front of the villa Vignola built for cardinal Gambara.
  2. Start at the top, where the stream comes straight out of the rock.
  3. Follow it down the slope, through the terraces, the cascades and the grottoes.
  4. It settles in the square basin of the Fontana dei Mori, at the foot of the garden.

The guide is booked and paid for separately from the entrance ticket, so ring the infoline and arrange her before you travel.

Where it is

Bagnaia at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Bagnaia, and where it is from Rome Bagnaia drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 86 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 86 min Rome Bagnaia

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Oslavia 35, 01100 Viterbo, the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 h 26drive from the middle of Rome
  • 102 kmeach way

  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you, door to door

    No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody spends the day driving

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Also around Bagnaia

Bagnaia On the trail

Villa Lante and its Mannerist water garden, Bagnaia

The sixteenth-century Mannerist garden at Bagnaia, near Viterbo, built from 1511 and completed around 1566 for Cardinal Gambara, with cascades, fountains and grottoes on terraces.

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