Villa Borghese gardens

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Villa Borghese
Siena Square, inside the Villa Borghese gardens
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Coordinates	41°54′51″N 12°29′32″E / 41.91417°N 12.49222°E / 41.91417; 12.49222

Villa Borghese is a landscape garden in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums (see Galleria Borghese) and attractions. It is the third-largest public park in Rome (80 hectares or 197.7 acres), after the ones of the Villa Doria Pamphili and Villa Ada. The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana ("Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill"), built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a villa suburbana, or party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection. The gardens as they are now were remade in the late 19th century.

History

In 1605, Cardinal

The Borghese Balustrade was crafted by G di Gincome and P. Massoni in 1618 for the south forecourt of the Casino Nobile. At the center opening there were two stone statues on top and fountains with shell-shaped basins below. The statues were a later addition from 1715 by Claude-Augustin Cayot. In 1882, President

In the 18th century,

The Sea Horse Fountain was executed by Vincenzo Pacetti in 1791, based on a design by Christopher Unterberger. The Fountain of Venus was probably designed by Giovanni Vasanzio.

Marcantonio's sons, Camillo and Francesco Borghese expanded the park further. The Villa Borghese gardens were long informally open, but was bought by the commune of Rome and given to the public in 1903.

The large landscape park in the English taste contains several villas. The Spanish Steps lead up to this park, and there is another entrance at the Porte del Popolo by Piazza del Popolo. The Pincio (the Pincian Hill of ancient Rome), in the south part of the park, offers one of the greatest views over Rome.

Camillo Borghese threw grandiose shows and popular festivals, such as a ride in an air balloon from the Piazza di Siena.

• Today the
  Borghese collection, including his David and his Daphne, and paintings by Titian, Raphael and Caravaggio
• The Villa Giulia adjoining the Villa Borghese gardens was built in 1551 - 1555 as a summer residence for Pope Julius III; now it contains the Etruscan Museum (Museo Etrusco).
• The Villa Medici houses the French Academy in Rome, and the Fortezzuola a Gothic garden structure that houses a collection memorializing the academic modern sculptor Pietro Canonica. In the 1650s, Diego Velázquez painted several depictions of this Villa's garden casino festively illuminated at night. Before electricity, such torchlit illuminations carried an excitement hard to conceive today.
• Other villas scattered through the Villa Borghese gardens are remains of a world exposition in Rome in 1911.
  • The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna located in its grounds has a collection of 19th- and 20th-century paintings emphasizing Italian artists.
  • Architecturally the most notable of the 1911 exposition pavilions is the English pavilion designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens (who later designed New Delhi), now housing the British School at Rome.

Other points of interest

• The garden contains a replica of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre built in 2003.
• Beside the 1911 Exposition's villas, there is the Exposition's Zoo, recently redesigned, with minimal caging, as the
  Bioparco, and the Zoological Museum (Museo di Zoologia). Nearby is the Casina di Raffaello playroom, which has crafts and reading rooms, and a space where children can dress up in royal outfits.^[6]
• In 1873 a
  Paris Universal Exposition in 1867 where it won prizes and great acclaim.^[8]

• The Villa's gardens feature in one of
  tone poem Pines of Rome
• The gardens are the setting of chapters 8-11 of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Marble Faun
• The Villa is referenced by Phil Collins in his 1996 song, Lorenzo.
• The gardens are featured in the "Rome Avanti" course in the video games
  Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
  .
• The Villa is mentioned in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1864 novel Notes from Underground.

Gallery

• 
  Alpini monument
• 
  Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna
• 
  The Silvano Toti Globe Theatre
• 
  monument to Goethe

See also

• List of parks and gardens in Rome
• List of tourist attractions in Rome

Notes

External links

• 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 81.
• 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2, Part 2. p. 899.
• Galleria Borghese
• See Borghese Gardens travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Media related to Villa Borghese at Wikimedia Commons