The Museum della Casina delle Civette

A new museum has been opened in Rome, after a lengthy and intricate campaign repair which are still in progress on others buildings in the Park of Villa Torlonia.
The Villa Torlonia complex has been expropriated and opened to the pubblic from the Municipality in the 1978 but, while the park has been used immediately, the uncertain conditions in which the buildings were, imposed lengthy and expensive repairs.
The "Casina delle Civette", plunged among the Californian palms and Himalaya cedars, was planned by the architect Jappelli in the 1842 like a "capanna svizzera" and reflected the purpose of solitary and romantic refuge: primitive and wild, typical of english gardens.
From1908 widening works of the architects Fasolo e Cambellotti changed it in the "Casina delle Civette" which became the favourite residence of Torlonia's prince.
Fasolo was inspired by the style of the Middle Ages: moorish greenhouse, medieval towers, Gothic cathedrals, drooping roofs, oriental fantasies.
All enriched by a fantasious sequence of elements, made of stairs, merlons, tiled drooping roofs, coloured ceramics and a brick wall at sight. Cambellotti added stained- glass windows with naturalistic decorations.

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Contact Information

The Museum della Casina delle Civette
Villa Torlonia, Via Nomentana, 70
00176 Roma

Tel. +39685301758

http://www.romeguide.it