Villa Caumont Caimi, Neoclassical villa in Felino, Italy.
Villa Caumont Caimi, also called Il Recinto, is a Neoclassical villa at Via Giuseppe Verdi 12 in Felino. Its symmetrical plastered facade rises three storeys, with a ground-floor portico of four round arches facing the garden and a classical balustrade added in 1867. The estate also includes 18th-century stables and a neo-Gothic stable.
The Bajardi counts built the original villa in the first half of the 17th century on a 15-hectare estate; a 1684 lawsuit over a boundary wall was settled in Paolo Camillo Bajardi's favour in 1687. Around 1780 the square plan with a central turret was remodelled and the stables rebuilt. In 1839 Count Francesco Caimi commissioned architect Giuseppe Rizzardi Polini to redo the facades in Neoclassical style.
The name Il Recinto, "the enclosure", recalls the boundary wall begun by Count Paolo Camillo Bajardi in 1683 and confirmed to him after a lawsuit settled in 1687; the wall still stands. The estate's wine from the hillside vineyard earned international awards before phylloxera destroyed the vines around 1920.
The estate sits on Via Giuseppe Verdi 12 and is accessible from the small town of Felino in the Parma region. The 17-hectare grounds allow visitors to explore on foot, moving between buildings and open spaces.
The wrought-iron neo-medieval fence that once ran along the front of the villa was requisitioned as scrap metal in 1940 for the war and replaced by a wavy wall; only the semicircular entrance gate survived. The two Californian sequoias Henri Caumont planted still stand in the park.
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