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Villa Borghese | |
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Type | Public park |
Location | Town Hall II, Pinciano, Rome, Italy |
Coordinates | 41°54′51″N 12°29′32″E / 41.91417°N 12.49222°E |
Area | 80 acres (32 ha) |
Created | 17th–20th century |
Operated by | Municipality of Rome |
Website | sovraintendenzaroma.it |
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 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, or party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection. The gardens as they are now were remade in the late 19th century.