More shots from my archive - from our visit to Rome in the summer of 2012.
We had temperatures between 30 and 40C - that's kinda challenging for people from Scandinavia - but great fun we had.
I'll try to share some pictures of less known sites - this is just a few kilometers outside of the city centre - still very beautiful architecture and a wonderful garden.
Google maps shows this as Villino Algardi - wikipedia as Villa Doria Pamphili.
The Casino del Bel Respiro, Villa Doria Pamphili
Some of the fountains in the area are rather dry during June - luckily this one was still "sparkling"
"The Villa Doria Pamphili is a seventeenth-century villa with what is today the largest landscaped public park in Rome, Italy. It is located in the quarter of Monteverde, on the Gianicolo (or the Roman Janiculum), just outside the Porta San Pancrazio in the ancient walls of Rome where the ancient road of the Via Aurelia commences."
"The exterior containing statues gives a rich allure that was architecturally somewhat conservative for its date, looking back towards the Villa Medici or the Casina Pio IV, and rather more Mannerist than Baroque. It offered a forestaste of the richly stuccoed and frescoed interiors, where the iconographic program set out to establish the antiquity of the Pamphili, a family then somewhat parvenu in Rome, with origins in Gubbio. Inside, Algardi provided further bas-reliefs and stucco framing for the heroic frescoes drawn from Roman history painted by Grimaldi."
The "Arch of the Four Winds" on the site of the former villa Corsini
Camera: Sony HX5V - since it comes with a GPS