VILLA CHIGI
Via di Villa Chigi/Piazza Vescovio
1763/65 Tommaso Bianchi first and Pietro
Camporese il Vecchio (1726/81) later for Cardinal Flavio Chigi, who
bought land on the Monte delle Gioie
(Mount of Joys)
1765/1769
valuable and well-preserved decoration of the interior by Filippo Cataldi and Gioacchino
Paver, with frescoes of views by Francesco Nubale
and Giacomo Rubini
Since the
late seventies onwards, the City of Rome has expropriated the park. The
building of Villa Chigi and the adjoining Italian garden remained privately
owned, separated from the public part of the park by a fence
The main
building has been entrusted by the owners on loan to Mondo X, a charitable institution assisting former drug addicts
The park of
about 5 hectares (12.3 acres) was renovated in 2003 by the municipality
according to the original planning of the spaces devised in 1776
CHAPEL
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