Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vista

Vista , noun

[Italian, sight, view, from vedere, p. p. visto, veduto, to see, from Latin videre, visum. See View, Vision.]

A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue.
The finished garden to the view Its vistas opens, and its alleys green. — Thomson
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. — Burke
The shattered tower which now forms a vista from his window. — Sir W. Scott