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Setting off again, up a steep series of steps in the middle of the woods, with colourful rhododendron bushes dotted around at the foot of the ancient chestnuts, accompanied by vaporous curtains of spiraea, and behind them, in broad open spaces left deliberately wild, in the spring months we can admire a dozen wonderful wild orchids such as ophrys apifera, sphegodes, seapides lingua, orchis provincialis, italia etc. We would like to remind visitors that all wild orchids are protected under national legislation and it is absolutely forbidden to pick and/or damage them. At the top of the stone steps, to the left, following a winding path of boxus sempervirens, in the vicinity of a splendid rock garden, full of cactuses and exotic plants, we can admire the bronze statue of David, produced by the Neapolitan sculptor Gioacchino Varlese, in imitation of the one by Verrocchio kept at the national museum in Florence.Photogallery
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