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1) TERMINI - DEPARTURE (SUBWAY LINE A TOWARDS BARBERINI)
2) PIAZZA BARBERINI - VIA VENETO
3) HORSE-RIDING TRACK - WEATHER BALLOON
4) MUSEO BORGHESE
5) PIAZZA DI SIENA - VILLA BORGHESE
6) GARDEN OF THE LAKE
7) TERRACE OF THE PINCIO
8) PIAZZA DEL POPOLO
9) PIAZZALE FLAMINIO - RETURN (SUBWAY LINE A TOWARDS TERMINI)

From the Hotel Massimo D'Azeglio turn right and walk straight down Via Cavour towards Temini Railway station. Once there get on the Metro/Underground Line A.
Get off at the Barberini station. This walk will take you to delightful places such as gardens, villas, and fountains that have a close connection with the history of Rome.
Piazza Barberini is the bustling square into which traffic from Via del Tritone, Via Quattro Fontane, Via Barberini, Via Veneto and Via Sistina flows.
In the center of the piazza is Bernini's unmistakable masterpiece, the splendid "Fontana del Tritone" (triton fountain), sculpted in 1643, a symbol of the old and historic capital city.
The fountain works as a perfect entity: the four dolphins with their mouths at water level in a four-lobed basin where they support the coat of arms of the Barberini family between the halves of a giant shell on a triton is blowing on a conch shell, spurting a jet of water that then spills into the basin below. Like all of Bernini's fountains, Fontana della Tritone is very low so the viewer can see entire sculpture.
At the corner of Via Veneto is also Bernini's "Fontana delle Api" or "Fountain of the Bees". It had originally been installed on a corner of Via Sistina at the request of Pope Urban VIII. It was removed in the nineteenth century for restoration and in 1920, was placed where we see it today. The fountain, created by the artist in 1644, is an excellent example of Roman Baroque.
Before starting on our long walk, we suggest that you treat yourself to a scrumptious "pizza by the slice" from the old bakery on Via San Nicola da Tolentino.
Via Veneto, built in the early 1900s, begins at the corner of the piazza at the fountain.
Make your way on the street past luxurious hotels, world-renowned sites and elegant shops and walk towards Villa Borghese and go through the Aurelian Walls.
Just a few steps from the subway station, on the right of the street, is the church of Santa Maria della Concezione, built in 1626, of the "Cappuccini" (Capuchins) monastic order. The church is known for its underground chapels where along the wall a rather macabre decoration is made up of lamps; niches and rose windows braided with the bones of 4,000 dead Capuchin Friars.
Along this street, on the same side as the church, is the beautiful palazzo of Margherita di Savoia (queen of Italy) designed by Koch, between 1896-1890, which houses the American embassy.
On the other side of the street, in addition to the very popular "Hard Rock Café", are very famous five-star hotels where famous celebrities stay as well as the tourists who seek them out.
The second part of the street is extremely busy, above all during the spring and summer months, with tourists in bistros in search of the "Dolce Vita" they have seen in the film of Fellini.
At the end of the climb you go through the Roman-era Aurelian Walls and on the left you enter into the large green area of the Galoppatoio (horse-riding track), today the roof of an enormous underground parking garage. An interesting attraction is the hot-air balloon from which, (weather permitting) it is possible to see the entire city. Any questions regarding tours can be made directly on site because the balloons go up every 20 minutes.
Shortly after crossing Viale San Paolo del Brasile, you will find the "Casa del Cinema" in the piazza dedicated to Marcello Mastroianni, a famous Italian movie actor who recently died. The "Casa del Cinema" includes a children's cinema, rides, rental bikes, and a tram ride of the Villa.
At the end of Viale del Museo Borghese is the villa and its park designed in 1605 for Cardinal Scipione Caffarelli Borghese to house the many works of art of the well-known collector.
The park was the first of its kind in Rome. Four hundred pine trees were planted, sculptures by Pietro Bernini were installed along with various fountains by Giovanni Fontana. In 1763, the property was passed down to Prince Marcantonio Borghese, who began work on transforming the park in accordance with the new rules of English landscaping design. The Giardino del Lago, and the Temple of Aesculapius, Faustina and Diana were also created. In 1803, another heir, Camillo Borghese, married Paolina Bonaparte and in 1807, they sold off many works of art from the collection.
In 1901, the Borghese Villa and Gallery were purchased by the Italian government for the city of Rome. In 1908, the villa was connected to Pincio by means of a bridge and between 1909 and 1910, the zoological garden and Modern Gallery were created.
The Borghese Museum and Gallery, however, demand the visitor's attention: Cardinal Scipione Borghese - as patron of the arts - commissioned many sculptures from Bernini when he was young.
The museum occupies the first floor and contains world-famous pieces of sculpture such as: the "Rape of Prosperina" and "Apollo and Daphne" by Bernini. Other works of art from the Roman era are the "Sleeping hermaphrodite" and the famous work by Antonio Canova, "Reclining Venus" that resembles Paolina Borghese, the sister of Napoleon. The Gallery contains paintings such as "Sacred and profane love" by Titian and Raphael's "Deposition" taken from the people of Perugia by Pope Sixtus V with the excuse that he was unable to pray without the painting. The gallery also contains works of Caravaggio, such as "St. Jerome" and "David with the head of Goliath" and other works of other artists from the 16th century.
Inside there is also a small café.
After you leave the gallery, turn left onto Via dell'Uccelliera, and take the first left onto Via dei Pupazzi where you will arrive at the Fontana dei Cavalli Marini (fountain of the sea horses) from the late 18th century.
Only a short walk away is the Piazza di Siena, which is over 200 m long and is shaped like an amphitheatre surrounded by a rock wall, pines and cypresses. This is the international hippodrome in Rome where the best horses and horsemen from all around the world gather each year.
Near the Piazza is the so-called cottage of Raphael, which allegedly belonged to the renaissance artist, and the little 19th-century palazzetto dell'Orologio (clock-house) which was donated to the Villa's Statuary Museum and restored to its original function, when it belonged to the Borghese family.
Cross the piazza to Viale Canoica. On the right, there is a faithful reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theater, which resembles the London theater with its open circular structure and rectangular stage and its columns supporting the roof on the three levels of the gallery. It has a seating capacity of approximately 1,250.
Go through the front gate. You will find yourself in the Giardino del Lago which extends around an artificial lake.
This was constructed in the early 1900s according to the then popular style of English landscape design. It contains a wrought-iron pergola and a tufa base with a stream that feeds the lake where on the little island in the middle of the lake there is a reproduction of a small Ionic-style Greek temple from 1786, dedicated to Aesculapius (god of medicine).
From the terrace behind the lake, you can enjoy a magnificent view over the Giulia Valley.
Leave this area by crossing Via dell'Aranciera. From Piazzale delle Canestre, take Via delle Magnolie where at the end a footbridge connects the Villa Borghese with the Pincio.
The Pincio is a public park designed by Valadier (1810-1818) and follows the traditional form of the 17th- and 18th-century villas. It is sited in the higher part of the city where in ancient times, the most beautiful villas such as the Horti di Lucullo (Trinità dei Monti), that of the Domizi (Piazza del Popolo) and in the 4th century the Horto dei Pinci whose name was given to the hill were located.
From the grand terrace of the vast piazzale Napoleone you can enjoy one of the most famous views of Rome.
Take a minute to examine the interesting "water clock of the Pincio" designed and built in 1877 by the Dominican monk Giambattista Embriaco, shaped in a little glass tower with four sides and four quadrants, in a fountain of rocks that is covered with vegetation.
Go down the ramps of the Pincio. At the bottom are the two semi circles forming the Piazza del Popolo with the obelisk in the middle. The church of Santa Maria del Popolo and the twin churches frame the beginning of Via del Corso.
This Piazza is one of the largest and most theatrical places of the city, a neoclassical masterpiece by Giuseppe Valadier (1816 - 1824). The obelisk in the center, measuring 24 m high, was the centerpiece of the Roman-era Circus Maximus. If you want to enjoy the view from the piazza, relax at one of the two famous bars "Canova" or "Rosati", which even today are frequented by young artists.
The church of Santa Maria del Popolo (Saint Mary of the People) was a small chapel of Pope Pascal II constructed at the expense of the Roman people, from which it gets its name. Many of the chapels - formerly belonging to noble families - hold paintings of great artists. But the most important is the first chapel on the left where from the transept you can see two paintings by Caravaggio: the "Conversion of Saint Paul" and the "Crucifixion of Saint Paul".
On the right, when you leave the church, is the Porta del Popolo (Gate of the People) which is part of the Aurelian Walls built in 271 AD, which were ordered by Emperor Aurelius to defend the city from the invasion of the barbarians.
The subway for returning to the Hotel Massimo D'Azeglio, is in Piazzale Flaminio at the entrance of Villa Borghese.