Rick Steves Pocket Rome by Rick Steves

Author:Rick Steves
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avalon Travel
Published: 2014-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

The “Theater of the Universe” M

The room’s decor sums up the eclectic nature of the villa. There are Greek statues, Roman mosaics, and fake “Egyptian” sphinxes and hieroglyphs. Look out the window past the sculpted gardens at the mesh domes of the aviary, once filled with exotic birds. Cardinal Borghese’s vision was to make a place where art, history, music, nature, and science from every place and time would come together...“a theater of the universe.”

Our final stop on the ground floor is Room VIII.

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