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PALAZZO DORIA PAMFILI, PALAZZO BARBERINI, VILLA ALDOBRANDINI. 105
among others, a magnificent bronze figure, which was sold to the Brussels Gallery. In later
times the fine site attracted the attention, like many other good things, of the Church, and
Cardinal Barberini built the villa, which passed by marriage to the Sciarra Colonna. To the
north is the Piazza of St. Peter’s, and it is encompassed on its south side by the deep bastioned
walls of Rome, built on the slopes of the Janiculum, which were stormed in the War of
Liberation, and a stone with inscription marking where the French made a breach commem-
orates those who fell in its defence. E. M. P.
Near Porta Pia are the beautiful gardens of the British Embassy, rich in tall
cypresses and dark ilexes, and gay with the flowers which a succession of English chatelaines
have encouraged there. In one part we come upon a vista, wild with red poppies or purple
foxgloves, rising round a broken column; in another a formal garden spreads its gay pattern.
The garden is bounded by the walls of old Rome, and on the top of them a walk has been made,
from which there is an exquisite view over the campagna and the Sabine and Alban hills seen
through the interstices of rose-covered pergolas. E. M. P.
115.—CACTI AND CYPRESS IN THE GARDEN OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY, ROME.
among others, a magnificent bronze figure, which was sold to the Brussels Gallery. In later
times the fine site attracted the attention, like many other good things, of the Church, and
Cardinal Barberini built the villa, which passed by marriage to the Sciarra Colonna. To the
north is the Piazza of St. Peter’s, and it is encompassed on its south side by the deep bastioned
walls of Rome, built on the slopes of the Janiculum, which were stormed in the War of
Liberation, and a stone with inscription marking where the French made a breach commem-
orates those who fell in its defence. E. M. P.
Near Porta Pia are the beautiful gardens of the British Embassy, rich in tall
cypresses and dark ilexes, and gay with the flowers which a succession of English chatelaines
have encouraged there. In one part we come upon a vista, wild with red poppies or purple
foxgloves, rising round a broken column; in another a formal garden spreads its gay pattern.
The garden is bounded by the walls of old Rome, and on the top of them a walk has been made,
from which there is an exquisite view over the campagna and the Sabine and Alban hills seen
through the interstices of rose-covered pergolas. E. M. P.
115.—CACTI AND CYPRESS IN THE GARDEN OF THE BRITISH EMBASSY, ROME.