Gattopardo Garden in Santa Margherita del Belice
The Villa del Gattopardo in Santa Margherita del Belice is the garden located on a lower level than the Palazzo Filangeri di Cutò, built at the end of the seventeenth century.
The garden has four fountains, two in the shape of a four-leaf clover, a large circular one with a central an islet full of plants, and a small, rectangular shape, known as the "bamboo fountain" because it is surrounded by these plants. Inside the garden there are also a greenhouse and an aviary.
The presence of an underground water channel with which the garden is irrigated meant that it survived even during a long period of neglect which occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Villa del Gattopardo is the place where Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa loved to spend his summers.
