Eiuropean and Japanese Gardens 
ENTRANCE GATE OF THE VILLA ALBANI 
urious Papal court and aristocracy of the sixteenth and seven¬ 
teenth centurries. Within the walls, in the northern part of the 
city, and adjaicent to the Passeggio Pubblico or Pincian gardens, 
is the Villa Medici, overlooking the walls into the Borghese 
Villa, which ^spreads its vast expanse northwards into the sub¬ 
urbs, and cormmanding westwards a marvelous prospect of the 
city and of tthe glorious dome of St. Peter’s across the river a 
couple of milles away. The Villa Torlonia is at the northeast 
corner of tine city, next the Porta Pia. The Quirinal Hill is 
largely occupied by the royal palace and gardens, the latter 
very extensiv/e and beautiful, but too flat and uniform to cap¬ 
tivate the betholder as do some of the other gardens. The cen¬ 
tral zone of tthe city contains no important gardens on the cis- 
tiberine sidei except the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele and the 
Botanical Gairdens; the southern zone boasts the Villa Mattei 
(now, I beliewe, the property of an American, the Count Hoff¬ 
mann), a villia full of the restful charm of antiquity, though it 
has suffered lfrom modern alterations. The finest Roman villas 
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