La Mortella museum

In the spring of 1990 opened to the public in Forio the beautiful garden of the Villa “La Mortella” rich variety of tropical and Mediterranean plants, designed in 1956 by English architect Russell Page.

In the House, and lived for about thirty years until his death on March 8, 1983, Sir William Walton, one of the greatest contemporary British composers whose ashes, for his will, buried here in a trachytic rock on a promontory about 120 meters above sea level.

The garden, which covers an area of about twenty thousand square meters, the museum and the house where the master composed his works.