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View from Villa Lante Grand View from Villa Lante


Villa Lante
Villa Lante

Villa Lante is a late Renaissance building on the Janiculum hill overlooking Rome. It is located at a short distance from the point above Palazzo Corsini where Giuseppe Vasi sat in 1765 to draw his Grand View of Rome.

S. Sabina
The loggia

Today the building belongs to the Finnish Institute of Culture and it also serves as the Embassy of Finland to the Holy See. An inscription by Martial (Epigrammes, Book 4, 64, 11-12) decorates its elegant loggia: Hinc septem dominos videre montis et totam licet aestimare Romam (from this point you can see the seven hills and appreciate Rome in its entirety). Giuseppe Vasi placed the same inscription in his View.

View towards Monte Soratte
View towards Monte Soratte

One does not need to be a guest of the Finnish Ambassador to enjoy the view because to the north side of the building there is a terrace open to the public. The view is not as ample as that drawn by Vasi, because the engraver forced the laws of perspective and included in his view monuments which were outside his actual field of vision. He also "deleted" some trees which interrupted the continuity of the view.
The image above covers the far left part of the view from the terrace near Villa Lante: it shows Monte Soratte, a landmark of most views of Rome; the large white building is la Farnesina (Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs). The monument to the far left is a lighthouse donated by the Italians from Argentina for the fiftieth anniversary of Italian Unity (1911).

View towards S. Sabina
View towards S. Sabina

The image above was taken from a slightly different point of view and it shows the far right part of the view: the Aventine Hill with S. Sabina and nearby Giardino degli Aranci: in the far distance Frascati and the Alban Hills.

The View
View (in February 2008)

You can see this view in a 9,250x820 image (1.8MB). The image is accompanied by a second one of the same size which highlights the main monuments and has links to pages showing them.

Other pages of this section:
A Winter View of Rome from Giardino degli Aranci
The Angel's Views (Rome seen from Castel Sant'Angelo)
A New Grand View of Rome
Roman Terraces
The Domes of Rome
The Bell Towers of Rome
The Loggias of Rome
The Little Madonnas of Rome
The Pines of Rome
Golden Mosaics in Rome
The Talking Statues of Rome
A Roman Bestiary (the animals of Rome)