Theatrum Sabaudiae

The Garden and Park in the Seventeenth Century
"THE DELIGHTS OF THE GARDENS, CROWNED WITH FLOWERS, FRUITS (.)

The Garden spread around the Castle through stairways and portico systems which linked the various floors.
The spaces were divided up geometrically according to the Italian style use of the gardens.

"Now lies the town of Agliè above a prominent hill facing southwards, from which the north wind spreads out towards the east and forms a peninsula just as rich in the fields, from Cerere with its ears of wheat, from Libero with its vine-leafs, from Flora with its flowers, and from Teti its the waters. On one side it is irrigated by the Malesna torrent and on the other side by a clear rivulet called Rialto. [.] On the extreme of this elevated land you can admire the magnificence of the superb building, and this no less with respect to the work of its greatness from an architectural point of view, order and symmetry, with marbles, balustrades, statues, colonnades, vaulted arches, massive walls, terraces, stairways, stables, suspended Horti, like the delights of the gardens, crowned with flowers, with the fruits of cedars of Naranci, and enriched with ponds, the clearest fountains".

From 'Relazione del Borgo, Castello (September 1663)' written and not published as an illustration of table 64 of the 'Theatrum Sabaudiae'