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Villa Borghese gardens
Villa Borghese is a large landscaped public park on the Pincian Hill in Rome that contains villas, museums, small temples, fountains and formal and English-style garden areas. The site centres on the Villa Borghese (Casino Nobile) and includes avenues, a lake with a neoclassical temple, the Piazza di Siena arena, scattered pavilions and museum buildings set among mature trees and lawns.
First raised
1605
Its prime
1790
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1790
What Villa Borghese gardens looked like in its prime.
A broad, irregular English-style landscape on a gentle hill, punctuated by pale stone neoclassical pavilions, low balustrades and small temple follies around a dark reflective lake. Wide tree-lined avenues and open lawns sit under tall umbrella pines, planes and cypresses. Scattered stuccoed villas and museum façades show pale plaster and ashlar, interspersed with sculpted statues, fountains, gravel paths, iron lamp standards and terracotta-roofed minor buildings; views open toward Rome from the southern terrace.
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9 places to explore in 1790.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Villa Borghese gardens, including 3 interiors: galleria borghese interior galleries and sculpture halls, casina dell'orologio (clock house) exterior, globe-style theatre (site of silvano toti globe). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
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Families who held Villa Borghese gardens.
The families tied to Villa Borghese gardens across its history, follow a name to its page.
Borghese
Laid out from 1605 as the park of Cardinal Scipione Borghese's villa; the Borghese family held the gardens until the state took them in 1901.
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Castles within reach of Villa Borghese gardens.
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