Villa Lancellotti, Renaissance villa in Frascati, Italy.
Villa Lancellotti is a classical villa in Frascati with multiple levels, columned facades, and broad terraces that overlook the surrounding garden. The garden features a water theatre and contains stone remains from earlier periods.
A cardinal built the villa in the 1580s, and more than a century later it was heavily rebuilt and enlarged. This transformation shaped how it looks today.
The ground-floor hall holds a mosaic of white and black tesserae found in 1863 at Tuscolo, on land of the Camaldolese hermitage. Statues unearthed in the Tusculum excavations decorate the villa. The garden retains a 16th-century nymphaeum.
The villa is no longer open to the public, so visits to the interior cannot be arranged. Part of the garden now forms the public Parco dell'Ombrellino, which can be entered freely. The garden facade and the water theatre at the far end of the garden can be seen from the road to Tuscolo hill.
The garden holds a water theatre inspired by another famous villa nearby, plus ancient mosaic pieces found during archaeological work. This link to older cultures adds extra layers to the site's history.
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