European and Japanese Gardens 



refuge. Its "casino," or little house, was less a residence 

 than a pleasure-house for their hours of relaxation or social 

 amusement. Its alleys and terraces, walks and shelters took 

 the place in their life which piazzas and "living-halls" do 

 in ours ; in them they passed their leisure, walking with their 

 friends, reclining under the arbors, lulled by the sound of 

 the fountains; reading, meditating and conversing, or giving 



A SOMEWHAT PRETENTIOUS GATEWAY' 



Entrance to the Villa Colonna 



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