Monday, October 12, 2020

PAGANINI VILLA

Via Nomentana/Vicolo della Fontana

1585 for Cardinal Mariano Pierbenedetti

1722 refurbished and restored for Cardinal Giulio Alberoni

It was bought in 1890 by Senator Roberto Paganini

In 1934 it was bought by the City of Rome, which used the Casino Nobile (the main bulding) as a school and commissioned the restoration of the park to Raffaele De Vico (1881/1969)

It is popularly called Villa Mussolini of the Poor, being in front of Villa Torlonia, the private residence of the Italian dictator

WAR MEMORIAL OF THE NOMENTANO AND SALARIO NEIGHBOURHOODS

Bronze statue "Winged Victory on Running Horse" 1925 by Arnaldo Zocchi (1851/1922)

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