Thursday Doors, 6/2/20: Bagnaia, part 1

• Manja Maksimovič

Three weekends ago I crossed one of the first entries off my to-go list, Villa Lante in Bagnaia. It was just as glorious as I imagined.

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One day, soon after I landed in Tuscany, amore sent me an article about Villa Lante in Bagnaia near Viterbo. I saw one photo and knew I would visit it one day.

This marked the beginning of my Destinations Anywhere, a list of places to visit which I posted on a previous blog three years ago. It is slowly being accomplished but also updated. (Who am I kidding? I would need several life-times to do it all. This is Italy for you.)

Last month my blogger friend Flavia agreed to meet in Viterbo, which is no longer in Tuscany but in Lazio, and her kind family friend first took us to the Basilica Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Quercia, the doors of which I showed you two Thursdays ago, and then to Bagnaia a few kilometres away where Villa Lante was waiting. Flavia – a natural born Roman – has never been there and I was glad to see her reaction.

After the beautiful fountains and doors of Villa Lante we continued to Vitorchiano and the doors from there, as well as the second part of the Bagnaia doors, will fill the following Thursdays.

And last weekend Flavia came over and stayed for two days. We were tourists and today she posted a most wonderful post for me with Capalbio doors and my bestia ❤ . It was after midnight, so it qualifies. Soon you will all want bestia in your Thursday Doors.

No bestia on that day, but welcome on a stroll through Bagnaia with us.

  • Before reaching Villa Lante, we had to pass several doors.
  • Flavia pointed this one to me on return, but I told that I’d already got it the first time around.
  • Not many would acknowledge this one but it’s for the people under the stairs. They need a door in their lives too.
  • The passageway above is newly painted.
  • I cannot not click.
  • An imposing one. The hole above looks like the mouth.
  • The entrance to Villa Lante. You can enter for 5 Eur.
  • The look out from the other side.
  • We were too late to see the interior of the villa, but we could enter this sort of painted anterooms.
  • A side entrance.
  • There is a lake and several sculptures and fountains. I have many more photos but today I try to concentrate on door-like features.
  • Another look out.
  • Beautiful vaulted painted ceilings.
  • You can find the history of the villa elsewhere. I’ve got only visual info today.
  • I like this eternal corridor.
  • Window-doors with a star.
  • Humidity wins. A look to the left.
  • A look to the right.
  • Doesn’t it look like the eagle from the German flag?
  • The view en face.
  • A tree with a see-through door.
  • The garden in a wider view. Part 2 will bring more doors from the villa and the town.

For Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors challenge.

44 thoughts on “Thursday Doors, 6/2/20: Bagnaia, part 1”

    1. Hehe, oh, Norm, I’m sure winter is relative, especially if you compare ours with yours. Flavia lives by the sea and this was inland, she can obviously feel any drop in temperature and dress accordingly. I was glad to have my winter coat that day too. It was windy and just under 10 degrees, I think. Thanks, there will be more, but the best way is to go there. 🙂

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