He designed many buildings in Rome, which included work at the Villa Giulia complex ( in collaboration with Vignola and Vasari ), also at Lucca and Florence.

There are examples of such casinos at Villa Giulia and Villa Farnese.

He retired to his luxurious palace at the Villa Giulia which he had built for himself close to the Porta del Popolo.

Julius spent the bulk of his time, and a great deal of Papal money, on entertainments at the Villa Giulia, created for him by Vignola.

Julius extended his patronage to the great Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whom he brought to Rome as his maestro di cappella, Giorgio Vasari, who supervised the design of the Villa Giulia, and to Michelangelo, who worked there.

It is now kept at Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome.

It is now kept at Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome ( approximate date ).

He is documented to have worked alongside Prospero Fontana in decorating the Villa Giulia.

Reconstruction of an Etruscan temple, Museo di Villa Giulia, Rome, which is heavily influenced by studies of the Temple of Apollo at Portonaccio ( Veio )

In Rome, Vasari worked with Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola and Bartolomeo Ammanati at Pope Julius III's Villa Giulia.

The tablets are now held at the National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome.

Other are the Villa Borghese ; the Villa Doria Pamphili ( 1650 ); the Villa Giulia of Pope Julius III ( 1550 ), designed by Vignola.

In Italy, classic villas such as Villa Farnese and Villa Giulia were typical, albeit individually diverse forms, of the new style of mansion.

Also famous is the bronze Ficoroni casket ( Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome ), engraved with pictures of the arrival of the Argonauts in Bithynia and the victory of Pollux over Amycus, found in 1738.

For the Villa Giulia in Naples or Palermo, see Villa Giulia ( Naples ) or Villa Giulia ( Palermo ).

The maximum altitude that is registered in the territory is above sea level, at the Collegio di Propaganda Fide adjoining Villa Barberini.

The papal palace, and the adjoining Villa Barberini that was added to the complex by Pius XI have enjoyed extraterritorial rights since the signature of the 1929 treaty with Italy ; the little piazza directly in front was renamed Piazza della Libertà in the first flush of Italian unity after 1870.

It occupies what was once the Roman settlement of Forum Clodii, now surrounded by an herb garden, part of the complex of English-style gardens at the adjoining Villa San Librato, designed by Russell Page in 1965 for the art historian conte Donato Sanminatelli and his contessa, Maria Odescalchi, and carried out over the following decade.

The Gladiator Mosaic in the Galleria Borghese displays several gladiator types, and the Bignor Roman Villa mosaic from Provincial Britain shows Cupids as gladiators.

* Villa Borghese ( It Happened in the Park, 1953 )

* Correggio exposition in Rome, Villa Borghese, 2008

The influence of Rome manifested itself at Chiswick through Burlington's strategic deployment of statues, including those of a Borghese gladiator, a Venus de ' Medici, a wolf ( used to inspire nostalgic memories of the legendary founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, a goat ( symbolising the zodiac of Capricorn, the birth sign of the Emperor Augustus ) and a boar located at the rear of the Villa ( symbolic of the great Boar hunt ).

Other main sights in the city include the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain, Piazza Navona, St Peter's Basilica, the Roman Forum, Castel Sant ' Angelo, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Spanish Steps, Villa Borghese park, Piazza del Popolo, the Trastevere and the Janiculum.

McKim, Mead and White also designed the American Academy in Rome, which crowns the Gianicolo hill, and looks across the city to the Villa Medici and the Borghese gardens.

An inscription ( CIL 6. 29789 = ILS 5990 ) also records Messalla as the owner of the famed Gardens of Lucullus ( Horti Luculliani ) located on the Pincian Hill where the Villa Borghese gardens are today.

Purchased by Lord Astor in the late 19th century from the Villa Borghese gardens in Rome, it is crafted from Travertine stone and brick tiles by Giuseppe Di Giacomo and Paolo Massini in c. 1618-19.

The Villa Borghese gardens still cover 17 acres ( 69, 000 m² ) of green on the site, now in the heart of Rome, above the Spanish Steps.

* Riserva Naturale Villa Borghese, Nettuno

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 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.

The result is that the Borghese Gladiator, renowned since the 1620s as the most admired single sculpture in Villa Borghese, must now be appreciated in the Musée du Louvre.

* 2002: Tracy Ehrlich, Landscape and Identity in Early Modern Rome: Villa Culture at Frascati in the Borghese Era, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Piazza di Siena, Villa Borghese gardens, Rome.

Villa Borghese: the 19th century " Temple of Aesculapius " built purely as a landscape feature, influenced by the lake at Stourhead, Wiltshire, England.

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.

* Villa Garzoni, noted for its water gardens.

* Chiswick House Villa, Middlesex: The " Casina " in the gardens, 1717, was Burlington's first essay.

Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps has made Como a popular tourist destination and the city contains numerous works of art, churches, gardens, museums, theatres, parks and palaces: the Duomo ( seat of Diocese of Como ), the Basilica of Sant ' Abbondio, the Villa Olmo, the public gardens with the Tempio Voltiano, the Teatro Sociale, the Broletto ( the city ’ s medieval town hall ) and the 20th century Casa del Fascio.

With the gardens of Villa Reale in Monza Park constitutes an invaluable natural, historical, and architectural monument.

From the gardens of the Royal Villa it is possible to access Monza Park.

Many bigger green spaces are situated outside the centre: in the east are the Parks of Nervi ( 96, 000 sq m .) overlooking the sea, in the west the beautiful gardens of Villa Durazzo Pallavicini ( 265, 000 sq m .).

The numerous villas and palaces of the city also have their own gardens, like Palazzo del Principe, Villa Doria, Palazzo Bianco and Palazzo Tursi, Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino, Albertis Castle, Villa Croce, Villa Imperiale Cattaneo, Villa Bombrini, and many more.

A view of the gardens of Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini.

Anger used a short actress to suggest a different sense of scale, whereby the monuments seemed bigger ( a technique he said was inspired by etchings of the gardens in the Villa d ' Este by Giovanni Battista Piranesi ).

The site has survived to the present day in the form of a grove, included within the gardens of Villa Sciarra.

Because of the fame of the gardens of the Villa d ' Este there ( and of their namesake in Paris ), the name has also been applied to other entities:

* Jardin de Tivoli, Paris, a garden and park open between 1766 and 1842, made to resemble the gardens of the Villa d ' Este in Tivoli, Italy

Tivoli's reputation as a stylish resort and the fame of the gardens of the Villa d ' Este have inspired the naming of other sites after Tivoli.

At the rear of the Villa were positioned ' herm ' statues that derive from the Greek god Hermes, the patron of travellers and thus are welcoming figures for all who wish to visit Lord Burlington's gardens ( Lord Burlington's gardens at Chiswick were the most visited of all London villas.

Lord Burlington's gardens were inspired by such gardens as those of the Emperor Hadrian's Villa Adriana at Tivoli, from which the three statues at the end of the exedra were alleged to have come

The gardens, like the Villa, were inspired by the architecture of ancient Rome combined with the influence of contemporary poetry and theatre design.

The poet Alexander Pope ( who had his own Villa with gardens in nearby Twickenham ), was also involved, and was responsible for confirming Lord Burlington's belief that Roman and Greek gardens were largely ' informal ' affairs, with nature ruled by God.

Theatrical aspects were added to the gardens by William Kent, who studied the theatre and masque designs of Inigo Jones for the Stuart Court, which were owned by Lord Burlington and housed within his Villa.