VILLA BORGHESE |
FOR ITS POSITION IN THE
HEART OF ROME, E' FROM ALWAYS
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We begin our walk from the Garden of the
Pincio that surpasses Public Square of the People .
The walk, realized from the Valadier and opened to the public in 1828, e' from always one of the preferred goals from the Roman, the artists and the tourists. Between its tree-lined avenues ombreggiati from marine pines, palms and oaks, innumerevoli monuments and the works of art like the statues of Metastasio, Canova and Tiziano , or the monument to Raffaello (1838). Numerous envelopes dedicated to the great Italian personalities (patriots, statesmen, scientists, poets, etc) adorn i its tree-lined avenues. Not to lose the Clock to water , devised and constructed in the 1867 from the Dominican father Giovanni restored Embriaco Batiste and just for the Giubileo of the 2000. |
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Exceeded the Obeliscio that Adrian Emperor dedicated to the Antino favorite it reaches the Valadier Cottage. This evocative construction, conceived in 1813, from the architect Giuseppe Valadier, that it designed the public park of the Pincio, remembers a casino of hunting constructed in the best settecentesco taste with loggiati and terraces. Pleasant it is to fermarsi to take to a coffee or a cappuccino. |
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The Cottage of Clock (1791) shows oneself on the beautifulst Public Piazza di Siena, long 200 meters and to shape of stage, encircled from high pines from the particular shape to umbrella. Here the anniversaries are carried out horse competitions. To our Spouses we advise the romantica gita in boat in the water mirror of the Garden of the Lago , until the small island with to the center the Tempietto of neoclassico style. After a short pause the visit of the great continuous park. To every angle the splendid architectonic ruins and the Fontanas like that one of the Horses Navy. |
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We reach the Bourgeois, intentional Casino from Borghese and acquired Scipione Cardinal in 1902 from the Italian State. E' constituted from two joined lateral bodies from a covered porch to terrace, from which the central, rear body is raised on two plans ornatissimo, with statues and envelopes within niches. To its inside they have center: to its inside the BorgheseMuseum with the Borghese Gallery defined the " Queen of the private collections of the world ", (visits for appointment), with famous sculptures of incalculable beauty and all over the world: languida the Paolina Borghese, neoclassica work of Canova, the Davide that launch the sling and Apollo and Dafne of the Bernini and important pictures painters like Caravaggio, Raffaello, Antonello from Messina. |
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We continue our walk through the Park of
the Daini , therefore called for struck of hunting of the Principles
Bourgeois and the Secret Garden . The distance finishes, if it is
desired, with a visit to the Zoo or, for the lovers of the art, of forehead
to the National Gallery of Modern Art.
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ROMAInsieme - Villa Borghese A romantic walk in a green oasis, between Neoclassic and BarocArt |
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