Villa Borghese - Rome, Italy
Posted by: Torgut
N 41° 54.598 E 012° 29.276
33T E 291656 N 4642832
Villa Borghese in not the largest park in Rome, but due to its central location it might be the most significant.
Waymark Code: WMJRTJ
Location: Lazio, Italy
Date Posted: 12/26/2013
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The roots of this park can be found back in 1605, when cardinal Scipione Borghese (thus the name of the park) begun converting a vineyard in which would eventually become the most important park of modern Rome.
However, most of the 80 ha of the park were redesigned in the 19th Century, keeping its features since then.
The most important building is the Borghese Gallery, former Villa Borghese Pinciana, the house which was the core of the park. Also, Rome's Zoo is located on the grounds of Villa Borghese park.
From Wikipedia (see link bellow):
"Villa Borghese is a largelandscape garden in the naturalistic English manner 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 148 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, a party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection. The gardens as they are now were remade in the early nineteenth century."
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