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The noble Salustio Terrosi from Cetona, started building the villa in 1750, in occasion of his marriage with Maria Antonietta Vagnoli. The place, where narrow 17th century huts stood previously, was completely reclaimed and transformed due to the impressive levelling of the grounds.
The park, a 15 hectares hill, surrounded by paths of cypress trees, includes a birding net made of holm oaks and other evergreen plants, a garden near the main building, olive groves and vegetable gardens. The underground is crossed by several artificial galleries, often covered with stalactites and stalagmites and travertine blocks extracted on Terrosi’s commission from the many caves in Mount Cetona.
Other structures wanted by Salustio and his descendants embellish the park. Among these, we can find an Etruscan tomb, dated VII century B.C. Such tomb has been assembled after having been dissembled and carried to the park from its original site. There’s also a theatre made of stone with hedges used as wings for about two hundred people; the Roccolo , for hunting; the Tukish Casina, totally frescoed as fashionable at the time.
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