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1 Villa Borghese
Map 2 E5. @ 52, 53, 88, 116, 490, 495.
v 3, 19. Park: Open dawn to dusk.
Bioparco: Viale del Giardino Zoologico
20. Map 2 E4. Tel 06-360 8211. @ 52.
v 3, 19. Open 9:30am–sunset daily.
Closed Dec 25. 7 0 - =
∑ bioparco.it. Galleria Nazionale
d’Arte Moderna: Viale delle Belle Arti
131. Map 2 D4. Tel 06-3229 8221. v
3, 19. Open 8:30am–7:30pm Tue–Sun
(last adm: 6:45pm). Closed Jan 1, May 1, British School at Rome, designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1911
Dec 25. 7 8 0 - = Museo
Carlo Bilotti: Viale F. La Guardia. Map 2 In 1901 the park became the Many buildings in the park were
D5. Open Oct–May: 10am–4pm Tue– property of the Italian state. originally surrounded by formal
Fri, 10am–7pm Sat–Sun; Jun–Sep: Within its 4-mile (6-km) gardens: the Casino Borghese
1–7pm Mon–Fri, 10am–7pm Sat–Sun. circumference there are now and the nearby 17th-century
Closed Jan 1, May 1, Dec 25. & 8
museums and galleries, foreign Casino della Meridiana
The villa and its park were academies and schools of and its aviary (uccelliera)
designed in 1605 for Cardinal archaeology, a zoo, a riding have both kept their
Scipione Borghese, nephew of school, a grassy amphi- geometric flowerbeds.
Pope Paul V. The park was the theater, an artificial lake, an Throughout the park,
first of its kind in Rome. It aviary, and an array of the intersections of
contained 400 newly-planted summerhouses, fountains, paths and avenues
pine trees, garden sculpture Neo-Classical statuary, and are marked by
by Bernini’s father, Pietro, and exotic follies. fountains and
dramatic waterworks built by There are several statues. West of
Giovanni Fontana. The layout ways into the park, Piazza di Siena
of the formal gardens was including a monu- is the Fontana
imitated by other prominent mental entrance on dei Cavalli Marini
Roman families at Villa Ludovisi Piazzale Flaminio, built (the Fountain of
and Villa Doria Pamphilj. for Prince Camillo the Seahorses),
In the early 19th century, Borghese in 1825 by added during
Prince Camillo Borghese Luigi Canina. Other the villa’s
assembled the family’s magni- conveniently sited 18th-century
ficent art collection in the Casino entrances are at Porta remodeling.
Borghese, now the home of the Pinciana at the end of Walking through
Galleria and Museo Borghese. Via Veneto and from Statue of the English poet the park you
the Pincio Byron by Thorvaldsen will encounter
Gardens (see statues of Byron,
p138). Piazza di Siena, Goethe, and Victor Hugo, and a
a pleasantly open, gloomy equestrian King
grass-covered Umberto I.
amphi theater Dotted around the park are
surrounded by tall picturesque temples made
umbrella pines, was to look like ruins, including a
the inspiration for circular Temple of Diana
Ottorino Respighi’s between Piazza di Siena and
famous symphonic Porta Pinciana, and a Temple
poem The Pines of of Faustina, wife of Emperor
Rome, written in Antoninus Pius, on the hill
1924. Near Piazza north of Piazza di Siena. The
di Siena are the nearby medieval-looking
so-called Casina Fortezzuola by Canina contains
di Raffaello, said the works of the sculptor Pietro
to have been Canonica, who lived in the
owned by Raphael, building, and died there in
and the 18th- 1959. In the garden stands
century Palazzetto Canonica’s Monument to
dell’Orologio. These the Alpino and his Mule,
were summerhouses which honors the humblest
from which people protagonists in Italy’s alpine
enjoyed the beautiful battles against Austria in
Neo-Classical Temple of Diana vistas across the park. World War I.

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