INTRODUCTION TO WALKING TOUR 12

Greater Rome: Outside the Walls

(Text from Not Built in a Day page 346)

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The Galleria Borghese, the most famous of the aristocratic Roman villas.

 

 

The final tour ventures farther afield . . . to a handful of sites located outside the ancient city walls:  two well-known villa museums (the garden side of the Galleria Borghese is pictured above), a lesser-known medieval church, a little-known modern memorial, and a twentieth-centry suburban neighborhood famous in architectural circles for sending Modernist purists into fits of scathing denunciation . . .