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The Villa Doria Pamphili is a seventeenth-century villa with what is today the largest landscaped public park in Rome, Italy. It is located in the quarter of Monteverde , on the Gianicolo (or the Roman Janiculum ), just outside the Porta San Pancrazio in the ancient walls of Rome where the ancient road of the Via Aurelia commences.
The Villa dei Sette Bassi (also Villa Via Tuscolana) was the second-largest ancient Roman villa or monumental palace in the suburbs after the Villa of the Quintilii. [1]The site is on a hilly plateau located at the fifth mile of Via Tuscolana to the southeast of Rome and forms part of the Appia Antica archaeological park.
The courtyard. The first floor shuttered windows correspond to a four-sided gallery, housing the collection's main paintings. Interior. The large collection of paintings, furniture and statuary has been assembled since the 16th century by the Doria, Pamphilj, Landi and Aldobrandini families now united through marriage and descent under the simplified surname Doria Pamphilj.
The built-up area of Castel Gandolfo. In the 11th century, the powerful Basilian monastery of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata had important economic interests in the area of Castel Gandolfo, which arose and developed on the edge of the ancient imperial and then ecclesiastical property, around a church dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel, first mentioned in 1116.
Villa Ada is a park in Rome, Italy, with a surface of 180 hectares (450 acres; 1.8 km 2) it is the second largest in the city after Villa Doria Pamphili. [1] It is located in the northeastern part of the city.
Villa of Maxentius and Mausoleum of Romulus. The Villa of Maxentius is an imperial villa in Rome, built by the Roman emperor Maxentius.The complex is located between the second and third miles of the ancient Appian Way, and consists of three main buildings: the palace, the circus of Maxentius and the dynastic mausoleum, designed in an inseparable architectural unit to honor Maxentius.
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In 1607, he began construction of a villa on the Pincian Hill just north of the Pincian Gate in Rome. The work was begun by architect Flaminio Ponzio, who had recently worked on the Palazzo Borghese. Upon Ponzio's death in 1613, the work was continued by his assistant Giovanni Vasanzio, who designed the facade. [2]