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The Villa Aldobrandini is a villa in Frascati, Italy. It is still owned and lived in by the Aldobrandini family, and known as Belvedere for its location overlooking the valley toward the city of Rome. It is the only grand Papal garden not owned by the state. [clarification needed]
The villa was never the family seat as the Aldobrandini family owned even more splendid residences elsewhere in Rome. The villa on the Quirinal hill served essentially for ceremonial functions. Ippolito Aldobrandini, Pope Clement VIII. More famous was the Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati.
[Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Lazio, Italy. Wall and gate] [1925 summer] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in. Notes: Site History. House Architecture: Giacomo della Porta and Carlo Maderno, 1598-1603. Landscape: Giacomo della Porta and Carlo Maderno, 1598-1603. Associated Name: Pietro Aldobrandini.
Lady Kitty’s wedding in 2021 was at the Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati, with views onto Rome. She said: “I always knew that I wanted to get married in Italy. Stefano (Gabbana) and Domenico ...
In 1809 Frascati was annexed to the French Empire, and selected as the capital of the Roman canton. In autumn 1837, there was a plague epidemic in Rome, and 5,000 people left Rome. Frascati was the only city that opened its doors to them. Since then Frascati's flag has been the same as Rome's, yellow and red.
In 1598, Pope Clement gave Pietro the old Ruffini villa at Frascati as a reward for successful negotiations he had undertaken with the French. [5] It was known as the Villa Aldobrandini. His architect, Giacomo della Porta, began the work. Carlo Maderno added a loggia; Giovanni Fontana worked on the garden. [6]
As house architect of prince Giovanni Battista Pamphili Aldobrandini, he built the entrance gate and garden wall of the Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati, accomplished in 1693. [1] [3] He also designed the tomb monument erected by the prince from 1705–07 to his ancestor Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini in San Pietro in Vincoli.
Villa Aldobrandini is a villa in Frascati, Italy, property of Aldobrandini family. Also known as Belvedere for its charming location overlooking the whole valley up to Rome, it was built on the order of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, Pope Clement VIII's nephew over a pre-existing edifice built by the Vatican prelate Alessandro Rufini in 1550.