Villa Doria Pamphili

Villa Doria Pamphili is a seventeenth-century villa with the largest landscaped public park in Rome, Italy. The villa was initially a suburban residence for the Pamphili family and later became known as Villa Doria Pamphili after it passed to Prince Giovanni Andrea IV Doria. The villa features a casino with a central circular room, rhythmically alternating windows with niches adorned with sculptures, and a giardino segreto or 'secret garden' enclosure. The gardens on the sloping site were laid out from around 1650, formalizing the slope as a sequence from the parterres that flank the Casino to a lower level below, framed by formalized woodlands. The villa also preserves important evidence of the Roman and medieval ages, including the northern boundary along the Via Aurelia Antica, which partly coincides with the Trajan-Paul aqueduct structures, and funerary structures from the Roman period. The Casino del Bel Respiro was built under Pope Innocent X in the mid-17th century, and its gardens feature fountains built by famous artists such as Alessandro Algardi, Giovan Francesco Grimaldi, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini