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| Property Type: Apartment |
Property Site: City / Village |
| Country: ITALY |
City: FRASCATI |
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Region: Lazio |
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Vacation Property (for rent): No |
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| Bedrooms: 3 |
Bathrooms: 2 |
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 The Villa Torlonia is the name applied to several country retreats of the Torlonia princely family in the cities of Rome and Frascati, Lazio, Italy.
The land the villa in Frascati was built on belonged to the Abbey of Grottaferrata, which donated it in 1563 to Annibal Caro, who commissioned a small villa where he spent the last years of his life, translating the Aeneid. (In 1896, Prince Leopoldo Torlonia placed a memorial stone to remember this event.)
In 1571 Beatrice Cenci bought the villa, which passed in 1596 to Cardinal Tolomeo Galli, Secretary of State under pope Gregory XIII. who commissioned the first enlargement works.
In 1607 Cardinal Scipione Borghese, Paul V's nephew, took possession of the Villa; he enlarged and embellished it. The waterworks used to feed the fountains of the Villa and the spectacular Theatre of the Waters with a water flight of steps, date to seventeenth century (the works were carried out by Girolamo Fontana, Carlo Maderno and Flaminio Ponzo) and completed with a large frontal with niches and fountains. Other 17th and 18th century owners were Stefano Colonna, the Conti family, and the Sforza Cesarini family.
In the 19th century the villa was acquired by Prince Torlonia whose name it commemorates. During the Napoleonic Age the Torlonias profited by the Holy See's troubles and amassed a fortune by speculative transactions. Besides, they acquired titles and redeemed their plebeian extraction.
The villa's grand Baroque terraced gardens and fountains provided subjects for watercolors by the American painter John Singer Sargent.
The old Villa was almost completely destroyed on September 8, 1943, when Frascati was bombed. During that period it housed the court martial and SS detachment. After that numerous partisans from the Alban Hills (Castelli Romani) area were transferred here and killed.
In 1954 the Duke Andrea Torlonia made an exchange of real property with the mayor Micara of Frascati between the "Gardens" of villa Torlonia and the "Quadrato estate": now the gardens are a public park and parts is private for luxury residence.
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Dishwasher: |
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| Ocean View: |
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Lake View: |
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Mountain View: |
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Lake Front: |
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| Private: | | | Public: | No |
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