Secret Garden

In the centre of the villa there is a small building where Federico would withdraw, a secluded place where art and nature come together. A series of rooms surround a rectangular garden. Here we can recognize a loggia with three openings supported by two marble columns. The frescoes on the vault show different episodes of the common life of men, from birth to death. The two walls which surround the garden were once adorned by fake perspectives no longer visible. Towards the top of the wall there are eighteen niches which contain figures from Aesop's fables.