In 1870 the noble Carfratelli Seghetti family decided to leave an elegant and cultivated botanical imprint on what had become their summer residence, and they engaged an outstanding European personality: the great German landscape architect Ludwig Winter. At that time he was well-known for his work on the garden of Villa La Mortola at Ventimiglia (now a national botanical garden) owned by the English Hanbury brothers. He was also a great lover of exotic plants. The Seghetti Panichi Historic Gardens, which he designed, is a rare example of what one could call “a moved landscape”, with exotic palms and terraced citrus trees which are typical of the Ligurian landscape. To plant a garden of such dimensions and particularly of such botanical importance required an enormous intellectual and economic commitment. Indeed, there are still local records of the processions of ox-drawn carts that transported the fresh soil from the river banks. The complex water system and the snaking terra cotta channels for rain water drainage are still visible today. Among the various examples of palm tree there are large groups of Chamaerops humilis and Washingtonia filifera, with their cascades of egg-shaped fruit, Brahea dulcis, with Cordyline australis, at whose feet are found the white bellflowers of Yucca gloriosa and groups of Cordyline australis, with two rare Yubea spectabilis. Of significant interest are also the other trees, some of which are typical to the Marches countryside, such as copper beeches and oaks (one oak, known as ‘The Cathedral’ for the breadth of its trunk and its foliage, is home to hundreds of birds in its branches), a number of magnolias, holm oaks, linden trees, and also two Ginkgo bilobas, a splendid example of Chamaecyparis lawsoniana and another of Cycas revolute. The Seghetti Panichi Historic Gardens is part of the national circuit of Grandi Giardini Italiani and of the extremely well-known French association Fous de Palmiers.