PALAZZO DORIA PAMFILI, PALAZZO BARBERINI, VILLA ALDORRANDIM. 105 



among others, a magnificent bronxe figure, which was sold to the Brussels Gallery. In later 

 times the fine site attracted the attention, like many other good things, of the Church, and 

 Cardinal Barberini built the villa, which passed by marriage to the Sciarra Colonna. To the 

 north is the Piazza of St. Peter's, and it is encompassed on its south side by the deep bastioned 

 walls of Rome, built on the slopes of the Janiculum, which were stormed in the War of 

 Liberation, and a stone with inscription marking where the French made a breach commem- 

 orates those who fell in its defence. E. M. P. 



Near Porta Pia are the beautiful gardens of the British Embassy, rich in tall 

 cypresses and dark ilexes, and gay with the flowers which a succession of English chatelaines 

 have encouraged there. In one part we come upon a vista, wild with red poppies or purple 

 foxgloves, rising round a broken column ; in another a formal garden spreads its gay pattern. 

 The garden is bounded by the walls of old Rome, and on the top of them a walk has been made, 

 from which there is an exquisite view over the campagna and the Sabine and Alban hills seen 

 through the interstices of rose-covered pergolas. E. M. P. 



115. CACTI AND CYPRESS IN THE GARDEN OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY, ROME. 



