Piazza Borghese is one of the squares in the historic centre of Rome (Italy), in the rione Campo Marzio. The square lies between Via di Ripetta and Via...
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di Borghese, with another in a great flanking facade to the Piazza Borghese that is extended by a slightly angled facade leading down Via Borghese towards...
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Villa Borghese is a landscape garden in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums (see Galleria Borghese) and attractions. It is the third-largest...
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The Galleria Borghese (Italian for 'Borghese Gallery') is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. At the outset,...
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proposed that the piazza should be enlarged and made into the focus of new boulevards converging on it from the direction of Piazza Borghese and Largo Magnanapoli...
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The Golpe Borghese (English: Borghese Coup) was a failed Italian coup d'état allegedly planned for the night of 7 or 8 December 1970. It was named after...
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Condotti. Palazzo Aragona Gonzaga, in Via della Scrofa. Palazzo Borghese, in Piazza Borghese. Palazzo Boncompagni Cerasi, in Via del Babuino Palazzo Capilupi...
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with the piazza below; formally planted bosquets of trees flank the open space. The planted Pincio in turn provides a link to the Villa Borghese gardens...
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Pauline Bonaparte (redirect from Paulina Borghese)
Paula Maria Bonaparte Leclerc Borghese (French: Pauline Marie Bonaparte, pronounced [pɔlin maʁi bɔnapaʁt]; 20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825), better known...
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The Piazza Fontana bombing (Italian: Strage di Piazza Fontana) was a terrorist attack that occurred on 12 December 1969 when a bomb exploded at the headquarters...
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Paolo Piazza, the secular name of the Franciscan priest Padre Cosmo da Castelfranco or Fra Cosimo Piazza, (1557-1621) was an Italian painter active in...
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Escalators (underground) Ticket office (mainline) Line A Roma-Viterbo Villa Borghese Piazza del Popolo Porta del Popolo Santa Maria del Popolo Pincio Via del Corso...
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Piazza Navona (pronounced [ˈpjattsa naˈvoːna]) is a public open space in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the 1st century AD Stadium of Domitian...
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Piazza Venezia (Italian: [ˈpjattsa veˈnɛttsja]; "Venice Square") is a central hub of Rome, Italy, in which several thoroughfares intersect, including the...
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Piazza del Campidoglio ("Capitoline Square") is a public square (piazza) on the top of the ancient Capitoline Hill, between the Roman Forum and the Campus...
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Santa Maria Maggiore (redirect from Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore)
Fenzoni. The column in the Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore celebrates the famous icon of the Virgin Mary now enshrined in the Borghese Chapel of the basilica...
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Spanish Steps (category Piazzas in Rome)
dei Monti) in Rome, Italy, climb a steep slope between Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church...
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The Piazza di Spagna is a square in the centre of Rome, the capital of Italy. It lies at the foot of the Spanish Steps and owes its name to the Palazzo...
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Piazza Navona, Rome Fontana del Moro (1653–54) Marble, Piazza Navona, Rome Self-Portrait as a Young Man (c. 1623) Oil on canvas, Galleria Borghese, Rome...
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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (redirect from Fontana Piazza Navona)
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) is a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for...
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St. Peter's Square (redirect from Piazza San Pietro)
Saint Peter's Square (Latin: Forum Sancti Petri, Italian: Piazza San Pietro [ˈpjattsa sam ˈpjɛːtro]) is a large plaza located directly in front of St....
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one at the College of St. Thomas. Another version stands in the Villa Borghese gardens. Embriaco had presented two prototypes of his invention at the...
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fountain and Monument to Fallen (Caduti) (1926) in the Piazza Borghese; a Garibaldini (1883) in Piazza Porzio Catone; a monument to Silvio Spaventa (1899)...
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This station has: Parking at Villa Borghese Escalators Elevators Ticket office Ticket machine ATAC bus stop Piazza di Spagna/Spanish Steps Via del Babuino...
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Bocca della Verità (redirect from Piazza della Bocca della Verita)
left wall of the portico of the Santa Maria in Cosmedin church, at the Piazza della Bocca della Verità, the site of the ancient Forum Boarium (the ancient...
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Borghese, and the family's coat of arms can be found in many piazzas throughout Italy. The Borghese family has a private chapel in one of Rome's most famous...
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Gladiator Mosaic (category Borghese antiquities)
Galleria Borghese in Rome. They were discovered in 1834 on the Borghese estate at Torrenova, on the Via Casilina outside Rome. Prince Francesco Borghese Aldobrandini...
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It Happened in the Park (redirect from Villa Borghese (film))
(Italian: Villa Borghese) is a 1953 film directed by Gianni Franciolini. The film consists of six vignettes set in the Villa Borghese gardens in Rome...
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Sant'Agnese in Agone (redirect from Sant'Agnese in Piazza Navona)
Agone (also called Sant'Agnese in Piazza Navona) is a 17th-century Baroque church in Rome, Italy. It faces onto the Piazza Navona, one of the main urban spaces...
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Quirinal Palace (redirect from Piazza del Quirinale)
needed] The palace, located on the Via del Quirinale and facing onto the Piazza del Quirinale, was built in 1583 by Pope Gregory XIII as a papal summer...
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