Villa Caprile is a wonderful example of a villa boasting an Italian garden. its construction was started in 1640 by the marquees Giovanni Mosca from Bergamo, the heir of a noble Lombard family that had moved to Marche since the mid XVI century.

Meant to be a summer and partying residence, it was built at the lowest slopes of St. Bartolo hill, on a  property of the marquees’called “Caprile”, not far from the left shore of the Foglia river and close to both Imperiale and Vittoria villas. It hosted very famous and important personalities, including Casanova, Stendhal, Rossini, Leopardi and Napoleon.

It nowadays hosts the Technical-Agricultural “A.Cecchi”high school and has consequently the double function of being a school and a historical-artistic monument.

The main garden, oriented south, consists of three terraces linked by staircases below the level of the villa and dominated by the tall building, which is overlooked, on its turn, by a covered roof-terrace. In the first, typically Italian garden, one finds, with a fountain, flowerbeds and citrus trees; there are still working water games spreading out of hedges, jars and monuments, which were designed to leave open mouthed the visitors with sudden and amusing jets of water. To create them, a wide gallery, which penetrates for almost two kilometers inside the hill, was dug in due time. The second level is occupied by the orchard, rich with fruit trees, recalling the Arab gardens typical of Spanish culture areas. Finally, the third level hosts the viridarium, with such scented essences as rosemary, sage, juniper and thyme.

Remarkable is also the little vegetable theatre, inserted into an arena delimited by cypresses and fully made with living plants, including the stage and the large steps. Here shows were performed by the Arcadia Academy of Pesaro. It currently hosts little and great events.