To the Villa Aldobrandini

This is a walk from our apartment to the Villa Aldobrandini, an oasis in the city, on top of a hill. We dawdled, took a little longer than Ms Google suggests.

We are climbing a slight hill inVia Sant'Agata de Goti, here looking back to the corner of Via Baccina,
on the right the falegnameria, wood working shop, see next photo

entrance to the falegnameria
A nice example of how words are built in Italy
fa = to make or so
legno = wood
the ending -eria means a place where it happens as in
gelateria
farmacia, etc.

Looking up Via Sant'Agata, Villa Aldobrandini right there at the top

This is the Aldobrandini Palace, below theVilla (park). The palace not open to the public.
This entrance in Via Panisperma.

Via Panisperma at this point is a bit of a pedestrian thrill.
But for the public entrance go to the quiet Via Mazzarino

There are steps, no other access.

delight in details

click on pictures to enlarge

and then there were only two others in the park

Many ancient figures have like these, lost their heads in Rome. Easy to do.
I have a sense of kinship. St Denis, patron saint of Paris, bishop of Paris in the third century CE,
lost his head, literally, in an anti-Christian crack down. Photo below borrowed from here.
Shame he couldn't spell his own name, but that was probably common back then

This is on the side of Notre Dame in Paris, I just want to show how impressed
the women were when Denis kept preaching while leaving Paris.
It is not at the Villa Aldobrandini in Rome. 

oodles of views

ROK President Moon Jae-in and Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha
call on the Pope 18 October 2018

While we were up there, looking out and down and far away, a small, fast, police escorted motorcade went by, from the direction of the Quirinale, the president's office, towards the Vatican. It may have been the motorcade of the South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who was in Rome on that day, in the course of an historically important visit to several European countries. 

...Historically important to the world if the world could turn for a moment away from its fast-food information sources.

From the bus stop near Burger King in Via Nazionale, you wouldn't know what's up there.

Waiting for 40 or 64

Someone else made this excellent collection of photos