Villa Fabri and terrace overlooking the Assisi-Spoleto olive grove

Located adiacent to the city walls, on the south side of Piazza Garibaldi, an unexpected flat area at the top of the hill, it offers a valuable link between the urban landscape and the surrounding countryside, whose terraces slope down to the olive grove. The well-preserved rooms with painted vaults, the Bohemian chapel featuring paintings of the Beuron school, the contemporary designed park with a variety of ornamental plants and the splendidly panoramic location with views over the Spoleto valley make it one of the most attractive places in Trevi.
The villa consists of the original main body and a wing added by the Bohemian College in the early 20th century.
The south façade is the most striking and imposing of the complex, characterised by the double stone staircase between the second and third levels, with a nymphaeum with three big niches, the central one of which is embellished with telamons.
The north façade is the most elegant and well-kept and can be seen when entering from Piazza Garibaldi. On the façade there are rare sgraffiti depicting six Bohemian cities.
The vaults of the rooms on the main floor of the villa contain surprising wall paintings by Circignani and Salimbeni, painters belonging to the Roman school of the early 17th century.
The Villa, nowadays seat of the Regional Association of the PDO Umbria Extra Virgin Olive Oil Road and the Villa Fabri Foundation, is used by the Municipality as an extraordinary container for cultural initiatives.
The garden of Villa Fabri is a trait d’union between the surrounding olive-grove countryside and the walled medieval centre; the new botanical garden evokes the relationship with the agrarian landscape of the olive groves and the generating element of the project’s architecture is the olive branch; the olive-grove territory surrounding the historic centre is part of the “”Fascia Olivata Assisi-Spoleto””, listed in the National Register of Rural and Historic Landscapes of the Mipaaf and Agricultural Heritage of World Importance (GIAHS site) recognised by the FAO.