BAGNAIA , about 5km east of Viterbo, isn't much of a town, but like Caprarola further south it's completely dominated by a sixteenth-century palace, the Villa Lante , whose small but superb gardens are considered Vignola's masterpiece and one of the supreme creations of Renaissance garden art - "the most lovely place of the physical beauty of nature in all Italy or in all the world", according to Sachaverell Sitwell. The villa is easily ... [More]