Lake garden
Temple of Aesculapius
An eighteenth-century temple on an artificial island, designed as a classical focus for the lake garden.
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Explore two garden temples, Casina Valadier, and the Enrico Toti Monument. Their pages explain different uses of the landscape: classical settings, a public promenade, and commemoration.
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Pincio gardens
Casina Valadier
Giuseppe Valadier’s neoclassical café building connects the Pincio’s public promenade with Rome’s culture of social meeting places.
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Pincio gardens
Enrico Toti Monument
Arturo Dazzi’s bronze monument commemorates a Roman railway worker whose death in World War I became a national heroic image.
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Temple of Diana
A circular garden temple from the late eighteenth century, dedicated to Diana and designed as part of the Borghese landscape.
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