Villa del Colle del Cardinale, Baroque garden and palace in Perugia, Italy.
Villa del Colle del Cardinale stands on a hill in the Caina valley, on the western slope of Monte Tezio near Perugia. It has a rectangular plan and three floors, with a grand salon, the cardinal's bedroom, ballrooms and a small theatre. The English-style park covers 13 hectares and contains a limonaia, a cardinal's bath, a small lake and grottoes.
Cardinal Fulvio della Corgna (1517–1583) had the villa built around 1576 as a summer residence, designed by Galeazzo Alessi. In 1581 the Florentine painter Salvio Savini decorated several rooms with portraits of the della Corgna family. In 1645 Fulvio II Alessandro, last duke of the papal fief, sold it to the Oddi-Baglioni family, who kept it until the 19th century and laid out the 13-hectare English park.
The garden displays Italian design traditions from different periods, with structured Renaissance areas alongside later English landscape styles. Visitors can experience these layers of garden history while walking through the spaces.
Visits are conducted as guided tours providing access to both the gardens and palace. The best time to visit is during warmer months when the garden plants are in full growth.
The villa's name comes from Cardinal Fulvio della Corgna, who had it built around 1576 as his summer residence. In the 1920s the owner Luigi Parodi hosted writers and artists there, among them Giuseppe Ungaretti, Vincenzo Cardarelli and Ardengo Soffici.
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