American landscape architects traveled to Europe and returned with images of Italian villa gardens in their sketchbooks.

Footsteps clacked along the stone corridor leading from the room to the villa gardens.

The new studios were constructed in the villa garden for this purpose.

In 1926 the villa gardens were granted by the state to the Commune of Rome as a public park.

But that, Orlando reflected sourly as he followed the surprisingly nimble dwarf out the door and across the villa garden, was exactly what they most resembled.

Following our guide, my group stepped in from the cold and found ourselves in an Italian villa garden.

As at Garda, a mild climate nurtures luxuriant vegetation in the villa gardens and parks.

Chapter 7 The beauties of spring were on the villa garden: appearances are so deceptive.

Explore the mountain trails and villa gardens of Italy's magnificent Lake Como on foot.

From the villa gardens, the Apennine Mountains are visible on a clear day.