URBEN

Villa Borghese is the parlor of the parks in Rome. A 5 minutes walk from Urben walking through the beautiful Via Veneto arrive in the green lung of the center of Rome

Villa Borghese is a large landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums (see Galleria Borghese) and attractions. It is the second largest public park in Rome (80 hectares or 148 acres) after that of the Villa Doria Pamphili. The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana (“Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill”), built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection. The gardens as they are now were remade in the early nineteenth century.

Piazza di Siena in Villa Borghese

It is home to the Piazza di Siena horse race, came in 2009 at the 77th edition.

The National Gallery of modern art from this period.

The villa is also home to the zoo in Rome recently transformed into the Zoo and Museum of Zoology, while the “House of the Rose” is now the seat of the House of Cinema. Near it is the Cinema dei Piccoli, the world’s smallest cinema.

Globe Theatre in Rome

In 2003 was inaugurated the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre, a reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London.

Galleria Borghese

The Borghese Gallery (Italian: Galleria Borghese) is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. It is a building that was from the first integral with its gardens, nowadays considered quite separately by tourists as the Villa Borghese gardens. The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V (reign 1605–1621). The Villa was built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese himself, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa at the edge of Rome.

Scipione Borghese was an early patron of Bernini and an avid collector of works by Caravaggio, who is well represented in the collection by his Boy with a Basket of Fruit, St. Jerome, Sick Bacchus and others. Other paintings of note include Titian‘s Sacred and Profane Love, Raphael’sEntombment of Christ and works by Peter Paul Rubens and Federico Barocci.

For reservation to the Gallery 06.06.08

Where to eat in the park

The Casa del Cinema (via Marcello Mastroianni) has a bar/restaurant with a nice outside dehors. You can have a brunch or a cafè, or a drink in the late afternoon. Enjoy.

Largo Marcello Mastroianni, 1
Ingresso da Piazzale del Brasile, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese
00197 Roma

AUTOBUS 
490 – 491 – 495 – C3 – 88 – 95 – 116

METROPOLITANA

Linea A (fermate Spagna, Barberini, Villa Borghese, Flaminio, Piazza del Popolo)

Casina Valadier

The building is named after its designer, the Roman architect Giuseppe Valadier, who had designed and built between 1816 and 1837 revising an earlier house of the seventeenth century.

In the period ranging from the Kingdom of Italy in the late nineteenth knows a happy time until it falls into decline and became the home of the guardian of the Pincio park.In 1920 it was bought by a certain A. Banfi who opened the restaurant .

In World War II it was occupied by German troops, after which the cottage enjoyed a happy time until the new changes of ownership wrong created a new decline lasted until 1990, when it was closed to the public.

Casina Valadier Villa Borghese  Piazza Bucarest 00187 Roma Tel (+39) 06 69922090

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Restaurant  opening hours: 1pm – 3pm, 8pm – 11pm monday closed

Cafeteria opening hours: 10am – 5pm  monday closed

Summer Holidays  from August 12th to 27th