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Villa Borghese is a landscape garden 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 197.7 acres), after the ones of the Villa Doria Pamphili and Villa Ada .
The Galleria Borghese (Italian for 'Borghese Gallery') is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana.At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate tourist attraction.
The Villa Medici (Italian pronunciation: [ˈvilla ˈmɛːditʃi]) is a Mannerist [1] villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the more extensive Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy.
Though the Villa Ludovisi was built over at the turn of the 20th century, several villas and their gardens still occupy the hill, including the Villa Borghese gardens, linked to the Pincio by a pedestrian bridge that crosses the via del Muro Torto in the narrow cleft below; the Muro Torto is the winding stretch of the Aurelian Wall, pierced by ...
Bioparco di Roma is a 17-hectare (42-acre) zoological garden located on part of the original Villa Borghese estate in Rome, Italy. There are 1,114 animals of 222 species maintained. There are 1,114 animals of 222 species maintained.
The Temple of Aesculapius located in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, in Rome, was built in the ionic style between 1785 and 1792 [1] by Antonio Asprucci and his son Mario Asprucci, with help from Cristoforo Unterperger. [2] The temple was perhaps built in memory of the destroyed ancient temple to the god of Medicine on the Tiber Island. [3]
The Gardens of Lucullus (Latin: Horti Lucullani) were the setting for an ancient villa on the Pincian Hill on the edge of Rome; they were laid out by Lucius Licinius Lucullus about 60 BC. The Villa Borghese gardens still cover 17 acres (6.9 ha) of green on the site, now in the heart of Rome, above the Spanish Steps .
The Villa Borghese Pinciana, Rome, houses the Galleria Borghese. Villa Borghese Pinciana (' Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill ') is a villa built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio (and, after his death, finished by his assistant Giovanni Vasanzio ), developing sketches by Scipione Borghese .