The "Casina delle Civette" in Villa Torlonia in Rome, Italy
The Casina delle Civette, home of Prince John Torlonia jr. until 1938, the year of his death is the result of a series of changes and additions made to nineteenth Capanna Switzerland, situated at the edge of the park and hidden by an artificial hill, was originally a place of evasion of compliance all'ufficialità principal residence. Designed in 1840 by Giuseppe Jappelli commissioned Prince Alessandro Torlonia, was a rustic building with vestments outside bugne tufa and internal tempera painting in imitation of rocks and tavolati of wood. The two buildings which today consists architectural complex, the main house and dependence, linked by a small wooden tunnel and an underground passageway, or almost have nothing to do with the romantic flavor of alpine refuge designed in ' Nineteenth century by Jappelli, if not for the walls of two buildings main prepared to "L", for the imprint deliberately rustic, for the use of different building materials left on view and for the coverage tilted slopes.
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Location: Villa Torlonia, Roma, Rome, Lazio, Italia, Italy
Photo credit: © Danilo Poccia / Alamy / Afripics
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