Walk on along the shady Avenue of Immensity, thickly covered initially by climbing of unusual length (the sweet-smelling bunches can reach to six feet in full bloom!), which was created in the early decades of the XVIIth century. To your left, beyond the great, multi-coloured hortensias and wonderful prunus serrulata, you can make out the figures of “the 4 Dancers”. Accompanied by imposing pinus pinea and platanus orientalis, among an infinite variety of exotic flowers and plants (to your left, a splendid example of Nolina Recurvata which is more than 150 years old), eighteenth century terracotta vases and bronze statues of Greek warriors, make your way slowly along the avenue, as if in anticipation of the spectacle that will shortly appear, and where in May 1880 as the backdrop to the ecstatic Cosima and Richard Wagner: “the view from there, for me, is the most beautiful of all”.

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