It can be challenging to move around a big city like Rome with strollers and a baby, especially using public transportation, but hey, this is our chance to be real tourists in our hometown.
On our regular stroll on the Parco Lineare Ciclopedonale Monte Ciocci – Monte Mario a new bike path built over the old train tracks of the FR3, now underground. A fantastic place that I hope Romans will not destroy. Here is one end Santa Maria della Pieta’ complex, once a Psychiatric institute, now converted to administrative building for the city of Rome.
Let’s move to the Centro, here is Piazza Campo de’ Fiori and the historic Market
Palazzo Farnese or Farnese Palace is one of the most important High Renaissance palaces in Rome. Owned by the Italian Republic, it was given to the French government in 1936 for a period of 99 years, and currently serves as the French embassy in Italy.
Pantheon
Montecitorio (Italian Parliament). The building was originally designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the young Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi, nephew of Pope Gregory XV. However, with the death of Gregory XV by 1623, work stopped, and was not restarted until the papacy of Pope Innocent XII (Antonio Pignatelli), when it was completed by the architect Carlo Fontana, who modified Bernini’s plan with the addition of a bell gable above the main entrance. The building was designated for public and social functions only due to Innocent XII’s firm antinepotism policies which were in contrast to his predecessors.
Piazza del Popolo
Villa Borghese, a landscape garden in the naturalistic English manner in Rome, containing a number of buildings, museums and attractions. It is the third largest public park in Rome (80 hectares or 148 acres) after the ones of the Villa Doria Pamphili and Villa Ada. The gardens were developed for the Villa Borghese Pinciana (“Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill”), built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese, who used it as a villa suburbana, a party villa, at the edge of Rome, and to house his art collection. The gardens as they are now were remade in the early nineteenth century.
The Villa Doria Pamphili is a seventeenth-century villa with what is today the largest landscaped public park in Rome, Italy. It is located in the quarter of Monteverde, on the Gianicolo, just outside the Porta San Pancrazio in the ancient walls of Rome where the ancient road of the Via Aurelia commences. It began as a villa for the Pamphili family and when the line died out in the eighteenth century, it passed to Prince Giovanni Andrea IV Doria from which time it has been known as the Villa Doria Pamphili.
Aperitivo time!
Finishing the day in Trastevere with Big Luca
Last cup at Cafe’ Peru‘, little old style, and super hip Caffe’ and Bar (italian Bar) now expanded into an Aperitivo and After Hours place close to Campo de’ Fiori