Barberini Gardens
Huge stretches of green lawn with towering trees flower beds with roses and a variety of flowers beautiful fountains set in precisely manicured versaille like gardens and grottos and pillared structures adding to the interest.
Barberini gardens. The pontifical villas barberini gardens is the summer residence of the pope and has been open to the public by pre booked ticket since march 2014. A green oasis with a fantastic view of the lake and the sea. Diagonally opposite and above is the triangular piazza barberini with the triton fountain.
The vatican opens to the public the gardens of castel gandolfo. The apostolic palace and barberini gardens are sold as two separate tickets you cannot access one with the other ticket but you can buy an entry pass for both beware the entry times to the papal villas and gardens there is no point coming to castel gandolfo from rome in the afternoon for example or on a sunday if it is the villa and. Below and in the first corner on the right is the san carlo alle quattro fontane.
Posted on may 18 2016 october 24 2018 by natalie. Some people had difficulty finding the entrance to it as it is not signposted. Peter s basilica are the most famous and most popular.
The gardens were founded as the magnificent country villa of roman emperor domitian 81 96 d c the albanum domitiani. From march 1 2014 visitors can admire the pontifical villas of castel gandolfo and the barberini garden with the rose garden the herbs roads the nymphaea riad the oaks square and the belvedere garden in a guided tour by authorized guides of the state of the vatican city. The gardens are amazing.
There you can visit the pontifical palace and see the pope s private barberini gardens which were opened to the public only in 2014 by pope francis. Huge stretches of green lawn with towering trees flower beds with roses and a variety of flowers beautiful fountains set in precisely manicured versaille like gardens and grottos and pillared structures adding to the interest. There are also the gardens at the papal summer residence at castel gandolfo just half hour outside rome.
Barberini gardens are really impressive. Palazzo barberini is one of the most overlooked art museums in rome. The 17th century palace is incredibly centrally located just around the corner from the quattro fontane and a few streets over from the trevi fountain.