Villa Borghese Park, a green oasis in the heart of Rome
Hello travelers
After a few intense days in Rome, although we tried to explore as many parts of the city as we could, unfortunately we didn't manage to visit everything, so many amazing places were left behind that we already want to go back and resume our exploration.
All these days took their toll on us, we were very tired, so we were looking for a place to relax, one of the green places in Rome, and we discovered the biggest park in Rome, Villa Borghese Park.
It wasn't on our top list of things to see in Rome, but somehow we decided to take a day to wander through nature and we didn't regret our decision.
We found out a lot of information about this park, so we set out to explore it to see if the reality corresponds to what we read.
Until I arrived on the spot, I didn't even realize it was so big, it's huge, from what I read it's about 80 hectares, unfortunately I didn't find the main entrance, but another entrance.
The park is huge (I think I've written this a few times before) and I sincerely recommend this place to spend a whole day, we did, even though we spent a lot of time here, we didn't get to see the whole park, we chose this way to enjoy its beauty in peace.
In the park you can find different places where you can hydrate yourself or even rent something to explore the park more easily, more here you can even take a little train.
To show you how big this park is, here is a map of the place.
Our goal here was to get lost in the dusty alleys and admire the lake, yes, you read it right, this park also has a lake, and to make your visit here even more special you can rent a boat for 5 euro/20 minutes/person.
While we walk with you through this park, I leave below some interesting information that I found.
Villa Borghese is the largest public park in Rome and features a lake, temples, fountains, fountains, statues and several museums.
Villa Borghese Park is located north of Piazza di Spagna and the main entrance is from Piazza del Popolo and Porta Pinciana at the end of Via Veneto. The park is a pleasant retreat in the heart of an extremely hectic city on a normal day.
The area hosting the park was originally a vineyard in the 16th century. In 1605, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, a nephew of Paul V, transformed the vineyard into a park. It was Domenico Savino da Montepulciano who designed a symmetrical, geometrically shaped park, the first of its kind in Rome. A villa was built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio after a sketch drawn by Cardinal Scipione Borghese himself. The park was later reshaped in a more natural form and an artificial lake was created in the late 18th century. A small Ionic temple dedicated to Asclepios, the god of medicine and healing in areas dominated by Greek culture, was erected on the island in the middle of the lake. The staff of Asclepius, with the serpent stuck to it, remains a symbol of medicine to this day.
In 1903 the city of Rome took possession of Villa Borghese Park and opened it to the general public. The 80-hectare park now has wide walkways, several temples, beautiful fountains and many statues. In 1911, the World Exhibition was organized in this park. Several pavilions were erected for some of the participating countries and some of them can still be seen today. The most imposing building is the British School, built to a design by Edwin Lutyens. Other buildings that can still be found in the Villa Borghese park are those that housed the stands of countries such as Austria, Denmark, Egypt and Sweden.
I was very curious what is beyond the gate, hehe.
Nicknamed the Park of Museums, Villa Borghese is actually home to several important museums. The best known of these is the Borghese Museum and Gallery, housed in Villa Borgheze, the building after which the park was named. This museum has an impressive sculpture collection of works by Canova and Bernini, including the latter's masterpiece - The Rape of Proserpina by Pluto. The Galleria Borghese also houses a collection of paintings by masters such as Titian, Rubens and Raphael.
The park also has an amphitheater called Piazza di Siena, a triumphal arch (Arch of Settimio Severo) and a botanical garden. Also here are some statues which are identical to those in the Fontana del Moro in Piazza Navona. The interesting thing is that these statues in Villa Borghese Park are actually the originals, the statues in Piazza Navona being replicas made in the 19th century.
Unfortunately Galleria Borghese was closed I think it was under renovation.
Dear visitors of my blog today, I hope you enjoyed your walk in the dusty alleys of this park, among the statues, even among the birds and ducks, and especially by the lake, maybe I have convinced you to consider a vacation in Rome.
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P.S. The attached picture you have just seen are taken by me with my mobile phone(Samsung Galaxy S21), and the text is also designed by me.
