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Foro Italico, Tennis Mosaic, May 2007 - Rome
Foro Italico, Tennis Mosaic, May 2007
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Parks & Gardens: The Orange Park
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  • Updated By melissa_bel on June 18, 2004
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  • The orange tress are in bloom - Rome
    The orange tress are in bloom
    by melissa_bel
    Carry on your walk from the Knights of Malta Keyhole and you will soon reach the Orange Park, an old orange trees grove overlooking the south-side of the city. You can have a great view from there, and in May-June, when the orange trees are in bloom, the fragrance and the thousands of white flowers feel like you’re in a fairy tale. You’ll probably find some oranges still attached to the trees. Don’t try to eat one. I did and discovered they are bitter oranges. Well suited for perfumes and pastry but not for eating!

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    Parks & Gardens: Roseto Comunale
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  • Updated By melissa_bel on July 25, 2004
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  • The main section of Rome's Roseto Comunale. - Rome
    The main section of Rome's
    Roseto Comunale.
    by melissa_bel
    June is the best month to visit the rose garden. If you walk down from the Orange Park, not far from the Circus Maximus, you will find the city's rose garden. It has 2 sections. The most beautiful one is with the tea roses. It is a real enchantment. They come in every colors and shapes imaginable: yellow, red, orange, white, pink, even blue! Climbing roses, dwarf roses, bush roses, etc. You can go smell them but don’t touch! The flowers will wither faster if you do.

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  • Website: http://www.comune.roma.it/sg/Rose/Roseto.htm
  • Other Contact: Located Via del Valle Murcia
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    Parks & Gardens: Villa Borghese - Piazza Bucarest
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  • Updated By icunme on April 21, 2006
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  • Piazza Bucarest - Rome
    Piazza Bucarest
    by icunme, 1 more photos
    Casina Valadier is located here in this Piazza on the Pincio hill. But this Villa Borghese area with its many busts should be a destination unto its own. It is also located beside one of the most spectacular vistas overlooking Piazza Popolo. Because the Pincio was decorated with busts of famous Italians, many busts were added in the new alley to smooth the transition between the two gardens. These busts constitute a nightmare for the maintenance of the park as their noses are a prime target of vandals.

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    Parks & Gardens: Spring shows her colors in Rome
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  • Updated By icunme on April 21, 2006
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  • Trees in full bloom in Villa Borghese - Rome
    Trees in full bloom in Villa
    Borghese
    by icunme, 3 more photos
    Villa Borghese is my very favorite hideaway in Rome - there are countless littles coves, niches, and pathways to be discovered. Here are a few photos of spring blooming in the park. We just posted a travelogue on Villa Borghese and really need a second one - could never give it all the space it deserves.

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    Parks & Gardens: Villa Ada
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  • By ruki on September 21, 2007
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  • Parks & Gardens - Rome
    by ruki
    Villa Ada is one of the very largest public parks in Rome, Italy.

    Park was the residence to the italian royal family from 1872 to 1878 and then from 1904 to 1946. There you can enjoy on the bench and the sunshine and watch who is passing. Today this park is famouse for world music festival "Roma Incontra Il Mondo".

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    Parks & Gardens: Balloon Rides in Villa Borghese - Suspended
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  • Updated By icunme on November 3, 2006
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    by icunme
    DON'T KNOW WHA HOPPEN BUT THE BALLOON RIDE NO LONGER FLOATS - CHECK THEIR WEBSITE FOR A NEW SCHEDULE. Too bad - we were in the Park today, May 7, and it was gone - the area was in bad condition. The website says they are "suspended" for the winter.
    Another very recent addition to the facilities of the Villa is a balloon, showing the decoration of the first balloons used by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783. A safety cable ensures the balloon does not move from its mooring site.

    Will pick up a schedule and post rates and more details soon. Click the photo for the full photo view****

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    Parks & Gardens: If you love roses ...
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  • Updated By craic on October 13, 2007
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  • What could be more beautiful than a rose garden? - Rome
    What could be more beautiful
    than a rose garden?
    by craic, 4 more photos
    ... like I do - and you happen to be in Rome in the blooming season - this could be a very wonderful thing to do.
    I was lucky - I got in a few days before it was open to the public because of an amico of an amico - plus I got a bit of a guided tour.
    I recognised Peace - which used to be called Madame de Meilland I believe, when it was developed in 1945 - then the war ended so it was renamed Peace.
    But in Italy it is called Joy - Gioia.
    I don't know if it costs anything - sorry - but I do know it was a Jewish cemetery for a long long time - then the land was presented to the city (I think the dead were re buried somewhere else) and the garden is laid out like a menorah.
    It was just what I needed after a few months in Rome.
    There is a famous rose garden in Werribbee just out of Melbourne that I have been to - and I was so stoked and so homesick when the Werribbee garden was mentioned.
    I also really liked the small bed of the original roses Romans got their rose petals from.
    It became such a thing to shower people with rose petals that useful vineyards and olive groves were ripped out to grow the roses for the display of luxury and excess.
    The whole spectacle - looking out over Circo Massimo where I saw the World Cup Final (Italy won) was very telling.

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    Parks & Gardens: Borghese Gardens
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  • By rexvaughan on January 16, 2005
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  • The Pincio - Rome
    The Pincio
    by rexvaughan
    We didn't make it into the Borghese Galleries (another reason to return) but did get to wander the beautiful and peaceful gardens around it. Part ot it is called the Pincio which was originally designed as part of the plan for Piazza del Popolo below it. There are lots of young lovers here and tons of motorized two wheeled vehicles. There are concerts here some evenings and it is a great break from the hectic pace of Rome - could do a nice picnic here.

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    Parks & Gardens: A day in the Park at Villa Pamphili
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  • By icunme on June 16, 2009
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  • A rainy day in the Park at Villa Pamphili - Rome
    A rainy day in the Park at
    Villa Pamphili
    by icunme, 6 more photos
    Villa Pamphili Park is the most expansive park of Rome with the perimeter of 9km.
    Founded in 1630 for Pamphilius Pamphili, but a pivotal moment in the development and extension of it was between 1644 and 1652. Two artists from Bolonia, A. Algardi and G.F. Grimaldi, created the villa's palace, called "Casino dell'Allegrezza" (House of Mirth), a beautiful and impressive example of Baroque architectural masterpiece. Now it is a residence of the Chair of the Cabinet.
    The villa was purchased by the Italian State in 1957 and the city of Rome in 1965-71, thus it is open to public and it is a favorite Roman place of rest, picnic and sport.

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    Parks & Gardens: Relax for a while on a park
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  • Updated By davidlop on January 6, 2004
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  • Viale Canonica - Rome
    Viale Canonica
    by davidlop
    Even parks have some roman remains, but the environment helps to make it a more relaxed visit. Try the area of Pza. di Siena (all the green area between the Galleria Borghese, the zoo, and the Pincio and Villa Medici), enough for an hour walking by some green paths... also if you like horse riding, you can do it without getting out of the city, here.

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