Where to travel, travel and route planner » tourist attractions Italy http://www.dankuna.com/blog Best travel, maps, GPS, weather, images, cheap hotels Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:15:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Galleria Borghese, Rome http://www.dankuna.com/blog/galleria-borghese-rome.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=galleria-borghese-rome http://www.dankuna.com/blog/galleria-borghese-rome.html#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:29:01 +0000 Mio http://www.dankuna.com/blog/continent/europe/galleria-borghese-rome/ [...]]]> The in Rome is an art gallery housed in the former Pinciana, a building that was from the first integral with its gardens, nowadays considered quite separately by tourists as the Villa .

The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, which was begun by Cardinal , the nephew of Pope Paul V (reign 1605–1621). The Villa was built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by himself, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa at the edge of Rome. 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’s depiction of the and works by and . Nice tourist spot. Visit it during your .

Galleria Borghese, Rome GPS coordinates: 41 54 51 N , 12 29 34 E

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in which commerce and the administration of justice took place. The communal hearth was also located here. It was built on the site of a past cemetery. Sequences of remains of paving show that sediment eroded from the surrounding hills was already raising the level of the forum in early Republican times. Originally it had been marshy ground, which was drained by the Tarquins with the Cloaca Maxima. Its final travertine paving, still visible, dates from the reign of Augustus.

Italy is great and romantic . See Rome once and you can die.

Roman Forum, Rome GPS coordinates: 41.892534° N 12.485715° E

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