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Wanted in Rome
04 Feb, 2021
Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli makes for a great day trip from Rome.Not many people realise that in the 19th century, Tivoli had a visitor attraction that surpassed Hadrian’s Villa and Villa d’Este.
But when artists, poets and writers of the Romantic era visited the town during the Grand Tour, the first place they wanted to see was another garden – a garden carved out of a chasm that ran down the side of the Great Cascade of the Aniene river.
Villa Gregoriana: waterfalls and woods in TivoliThe Villa Gregoriana was created by Pope Gregory XVI in 1832 as a public park and had all the requisites of the ideal Romantic environment. It was a
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ROME The pages of the Italian passport offer a crash-course of sorts on high points in the country’s architecture. After the Pantheon in Rome and the Ducal Palace in Venice, page 31 shows a more modern structure: the cantilevered grandstand canopy of Florence’s main sports stadium, designed 90 years ago by Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi.
Immediately acclaimed for its avant-garde design, the reinforced concrete Artemio Franchi stadium is known to contemporary architects and engineers through countless textbooks on 20th-century architecture.
So, when the new American owner of ACF Fiorentina, the stadium’s resident soccer team, announced this year that he wanted to tear the stadium down to build a more comfortable and modern venue for the club’s fans, architectural conservationists and heritage associations went on the warpath.