Villa Torlonia

Villa Torlonia, the most recent of the villas belonging to Rome’s nobility, still retains aparticular fascination due to the originality of its English-style garden (one of the fewexamples in the city), and to the unexpectedly large number of buildings and garden furniturein the grounds. The result is that Villa Torlonia has a differentiated and planimetricstructure created by the different projects carried out by architects and landscapegardeners over the years: Valadier’s work (the architect for Giovanni Torlonia) in thenorth section of the park in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has a traditionallayout, with straight, symmetrical avenues of ilexes, some of which close to theprincipal Palace still remain, the arrangement of the south section, however, was theresult of the more dramatic taste of Alessandro Torlonia (1828 to the end of the century),who had the park enlarged by the landscape gardener Giuseppe Jappelli. Jappelli gavethe grounds a romantic, “English-style” atmosphere with the use of winding paths andimaginative exotic buildings.In the courtyard of the Villa Torlonia is hereby limonaia splendid nineteenth-century farmhouseantique flavor with exposed beams and windows overlooking the garden whereyou can sip a coffee or a light brunch after a visit to the Villa.