Dalu Jones explores the newly restored monumental terraces, grottoes, frescoes and fountains of the ancient Roman gardens on the Palatine Hill In Rome
This year in Rome the arrival of spring was marked by the opening to the public of the newly restored Farnese Gardens on the Palatine Hill and by the reopening of Emperor Nero’s Domus Aurea (Golden House) on the Esquiline nearby. Now an exhibition, The Palatine and its Secret Garden: The Enchantment of the Farnese Gardens, celebrates the completion of a three-year restoration of what remains of the 16th-century pleasure gardens built by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520–89) over the imposing palace ruins of emperors Tiberius (r AD 14–37) and Nero (r AD 54–68).
The exhibition provides a delightful alternative ‘slow walk’ to the traditional route leading down from the Palatine Hill to the arch of Titus and the Forum below. A series of illustrated panels along the way show the visitor the transformations of the Horti Farnesianorum from the entrance gate of the Via Nova, the restored monumental terraces, grottoes and fountains, to the great former aviaries where some of the Roman statues excavated here are on view in their original Baroque location. Laurels, cypresses, citrus trees and damask roses have been replanted for the occasion to evoke the former luxuriant vegetation and the enchantment of the old gardens.
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