Villa Fidelia, Spello

Villa Fidelia, or Costanzi, is a 17th-century walled building with a large Italianate park and garden, built on the site of a 4th-century Roman shrine. It stands on the outskirts of Spello, in the province of Perugia, at the base of a hill, along the Strada Centrale Umbra.It was the Urbani, a wealthy Spello family, in the 17th century, who realized the new desire of the nobility to own a villa in the countryside, outside the walls, where they could spend the good season.