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The name Rocca d'Ajello derives from the Latin "agellum" meaning "campicello": the fortress rises in fact at about 400m above sea level on a hill overlooking the surrounding landscape.
Privately owned, can be visited on request.
The fact that the building was conceived as a fortress serves to explain the particular character of the Rocca d'Ajello garden, whose structure has remained unchanged over time precisely because the hilly and wooded configuration of the place and the presence of a surrounding wall have prevented its expansion and transformation according to the taste of the following centuries.
The garden is, as an English landscape architect pointed out, a large terrace bordered by crenellated walls overlooking the mountains and the surrounding landscape.
Six large flowerbeds surrounded by box hedges with an oval basin in the center and two stone benches, make up the original layout of the garden. At the ends, between groups of pines, maples, horse chestnuts and lime trees, there were (currently only one remains) two nineteenth-century gazebos made with laurel plants: inside a stone table and seats.
Source: http://turismo.comune.camerino.mc.it/monumenti-cms/rocca-daiello/