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A brief strip of field separates the large and flourishing city from the village. One Roman gate allows entry into the narrow streets of the village past the Castello Borghese, originally a fortification, purchased along with the village in 1617 by Marcantonio Borghese. The castle and the village were periodically renovated.
Flaminio Ponzio's rear façade of Palazzo Borghese on the Tiber River. The architectural historian Howard Hibbard has demonstrated that the nine-bay section of the palace on Piazza Fontanella Borghese was begun in 1560/61 for Monsignor Tommaso del Giglio, whose coat of arms or stemma remain over the door in Piazza Borghese, and he suggests that the architect was Vignola, [1] an attribution ...
The garden features two 17th century bronze copies of ancient Roman originals, the Borghese Gladiator and the Dying Gaul. A path leads from the garden through a curtain of trees to the Belle-Eau Fountain or "Fontaine Belle-Eau" ("Spring of beautiful water"), a natural spring which in the 17th century gave its name to the palace and gardens.
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.
Palazzo Borghese-Aldobrandini; Palazzo Caccini; Palazzo degli Sporti; Palazzo dei Vescovi a San Miniato al Monte; Palazzo dell'Arcone di Piazza; Palazzo Naldini; Palazzo Neroni; Palazzo Rosselli del Turco; Palazzo Panciatichi, Florence; Palazzo di Parte Guelfa; Palazzo Pazzi; Palazzo Pitti; Palazzo Pola e Todescan; Palazzo Pucci, Florence ...
In Lavinium, south of Rome, Castello Borghese is thought to be the possible site of the Roman-era arx constructed in the port city. The arx of Londinium was located in the northwest corner of the present-day City of London, south of Cripplegate. It was constructed around 120 and dismantled around the time of Diocletian.
Villa di Castello, Florence: the country residence of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, these gardens had a profound influence upon the design of the Italian Renaissance garden and the later French formal garden. [4] 2. Italy: Boboli Gardens, Florence
The House of Borghese is a family of Italian noble and papal background, originating as the Borghese or Borghesi in Siena, where they came to prominence in the 13th century and held offices under the commune.