The Villa Borghese Park

The Villa Borghese Park occupies a large area in the heart of the city. The villa contains inside buildings, sculptures, monuments and fountains, works of famous artists from the baroque, neoclassical, eclectic, surrounded by ancient trees, ponds, formal gardens and wide open spaces, made with great care. Provides its visitors with historical and naturalistic itineraries as well as numerous cultural, recreational and sporting activities. Beautiful places are: the Garden of the lake (almost opposite the Casina di Raffaello) where you can rent boats and enjoy, in the middle of the lake, the temple dedicated to Aesculapius, and along the banks of the Sundial and Fountain Family of Satyrs; Secret Gardens (Garden dell'Uccelliera, Old Garden, Sundial Garden and the Garden of Cultivation) reconstructed on the basis of historical documents and iconographic, Piazza di Siena named in honor of the city of origin of the Borghese family, headquarters of the International Horse Show, where you play (even) concerts; Vasanzio of the Casino Borghese, which houses the Galleria Borghese, the Fortezzuola now home to the Parsonage Museum, the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia and the Gallery of Modern Art and the Deer Park.
Columbarium via Pinciana: inside Villa Borghese, in the green area of Pineta, at Via Pinciana there are the remains of a columbarium with a square brickwork (m x 5,95 m. 5.40) .
 Of the tomb are well preserved only the eastern and southern walls. . Are still recognizable within four tiers of niches, the lower one with two cinerary urns each. . Orders over instead only a few traces remain. The structure is dated to the second century AD In the first decade of the 1600s the eastern wall of the columbarium was reused as a retaining wall of the loggia of the so-called House of the Janitor, was destroyed during the war of 1849, but well documented in the views made between the seventeenth and the first half of the nineteenth century. I resti sono visitabili dall'esterno. The ruins can be visited from outside.
Historical The construction of the villa was commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V, Flaminio Ponzo and his student John Vasanzio, who was succeeded in 1621 Girolamo Rainaldi. The arrangement of the gardens was architect Domenico Savino Montepulciano. The work ordered by Scipione Borghese lasted from 1608 until 1633, the year of death of the Cardinal. . In this first phase, the villa was divided into three distinct parts separated by masonry fences and gates fences calls. . In the eighteenth century, the restoration and improvement of the Villa Borghese wanted by Marcantonio Borghese and built between 1784 and 1790 by Antonio and his son Mario Asprucci interested in the first place the Casino Nobile and, in later years, the park, where it was made a system of symmetrical and perpendicular streets. Were added to the neoclassical temples of Aesculapius, Diana, and of Antoninus and Faustina. . In the nineteenth century Camillo Borghese and Francis, sons of Marcantonio, enlarged the area of ​​the park and the new landscaping jobs entrusted to Luigi Canina. It was he who planned the Arch of Septimius Severus, the Propylaea Egyptians, Greeks Propylaea.In 1849, during the siege of Rome, the bombing of the French army dealt the British a severe blow to the vegetation and to the furnishings of the villa, the Casina di Raffaello and the Casino of Water Giuochi were practically destroyed, and on the site of the latter a more modest building was built: today's Orangery, so called because there were repaired citrus fruits in winter. I giochi d'acqua non vennero più ricostruiti. The fountains were no longer rebuilt. Villa Borghese fu acquistata dallo stato italiano e destinata a parco pubblico nel 1903. Villa Borghese was bought by the Italian state and a public park in 1903.