With its 6 hectares of historic parkland, Villa Cimbrone represents a deliberate attempt to marry Italian gardening styles with English ones. Its lush gardens encompass cloisters, columns, crypts, an open-vaulted and terraced tea-room, 'avenues' of hortensia and glicine (wisteria), pavilions, rich rose beds, exotica and more. In summer, the various floral scents must be special.