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	Villa Torlonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Villa Torlonia, in Rome, was begun for the banker Giovanni Torlonia by the neo-Classic architect Giuseppe Valadier in 1806 and finished for his son Alessandro.
		Mussolini and Prince Torlonia constructed a bomb shelter in the 3rd and 4th century Jewish catacombs that lie beneath the villa's famous landscaped park.
		At Frascati the grand Baroque terraced gardens and fountains of the Villa Torlonia, Frascati, bought by prince Torlonia in the 19th century, provided subjects for watercolors by the American painter John Singer Sargent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Villa_Torlonia (339 words)

	Villa Torlonia F3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It could be considered as the last of the great princely villas because it was totally remade during the 19th century by Torlonia, rich family of bankers, to compete with the analogue property of the ancient Roman noble families.
		The last owner of the previous villa was the Bolognetti family from who Giovanni Torlonia bought it in 1806.
		Under the ground of villa there are Jewish catacombs extending for nearly 9km, during the WWII Mussolini and Torlonia built an air-raid shelter inside of one of the catacombs.
	www.italycyberguide.com /Geography/cities/rome2000/F3.htm (276 words)

	Villa Morgagni Hotel Rome - Hotel in Rome, Italy - Villa Torlonia
		It then passed to the Colonna family who in 1797 sold it to Giovanni Torlonia, a wealthy man of French origins who established himself in Rome around the middle of the century and was the architect of an incredible economic and social ascent that made him a central figure in the aristocratic circles.
		Giovanni Torlonia provided his family with residences in keeping with its new status: the palace of Piazza Venezia and the Villa on Via Nomentana.
		At the beginning of the 20th century the Swiss lodge became the Casina delle Civette (House of the Little Owls) and the Villino Medievale (the Medieval House) and the Villino Rosso (The Red House) were built.
	www.villamorgagni.it /villa_torlonia_eng.html (367 words)

	Roman Monographies - Obelisks (part III) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the first half of the 19th century, two obelisks in the shape of Egyptian ones were commissioned by duke Torlonia for the gardens of one of his roman mansions, along via Nomentana.
		Duke Torlonia held for the occasion an enormous public party, especially remembered for the enormous quantity of free wine offered to the people.
		In 1932 an obelisk was erected in front of the Foro Italico, the large sport centre built during the years of the fascist regime.
	www.geocities.com /mp_pollett/roma-co3.htm (847 words)

	International Catacomb Society: Visiting the Jewish Catacomb in the Villa Torlonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A campaign to photograph many of the artifacts and topographical details in the catacombs was carried out by Dr. Silvia Dayan for the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma between 1989 and 1991.
		A fairly recent article in the Italian magazine L’Espresso (May 4th, 2000) and a communication by Dr. Barbera at a conference on Jewish culture in Italy at Ravenna in May of 2001(in press) provide the general details on the catacombs and their restoration.
		7-62; the full corpus of inscriptions from the Villa Torlonia catacombs is found in volume II of David Noy’s sillogy of Jewish Inscriptions in Western Europe: The City of Rome (Cambridge, 1995), which also provides and English summary of Fasola’s topographical study of the site.
	www.catacombsociety.org /visiting_Vigna-Torlonia.html (459 words)

	Torlonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The princes Torlonia are a Roman family, with origins in a huge fortune gained during the 18th and 19th century by the administration of the finances of the Vatican.
		Also are famous in Rome the Torlonia's properties, like Palazzo Torlonia in Via Condoti near Piazza di Spagna and the beautiful gardens of the Villa Torlonia, now part of Rome's public park system.
		The Torlonia family are one of the few Italian aristocratic families to have survived the reconstruction of the Papal court of 1969 by the bull 'Pontificalis Domus'.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Torlonia.htm (239 words)

	Print Article: Nice girls didn't curtsey to Wallis
		The Infanta Beatriz Torlonia, who died in Rome on Saturday aged 93, was the last surviving aunt of King Juan Carlos of Spain and one of three remaining great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
		Torlonia was the son of Don Marino Torlonia, who had introduced the first motor car to Rome in 1892 (causing havoc to fashionable carriages), and his American wife, Elsie Moore, daughter of a rich shipping broker and hardware manufacturer in Connecticut.
		The wedding took place in Rome, Beatriz wearing a six-metre train, a coronet of orange blossom (flown in that day from Valencia) holding her veil in place, in the presence of King Alfonso, the King and Queen of Italy, some 52 princes of the royal blood, and more than 4000 visitors from Spain.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2002/11/29/1038386307566.html (1056 words)

	Frascati - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frascati is an episcopal see, one of seven suburbicarian dioceses, and home to the Basilian monanstery of Grottaferrata, and the minor basilica Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter Apostle.
		The town has a number of notable villas, such as Villa Torlonia and Villa Mondragone, since it was a popular retreat for Romans during the summer months.
		Earth Observation missions of the European Space Agency are based in Frascati, as is a major high energy physics laboratory, the Laboratori Nazionali de Frascati.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frascati (185 words)

	International Catacomb Society: News from Rome, 500 Million Italian Lire to Finance Jewish Catacomb Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There has been limited study of the site since the Italian State acquired the Torlonia catacombs, and the presence of noxious gasses lingering in the corridors and several incidents of vandalism have forced the closure of the catacombs for visit and study.
		Vault painting in a decorated cubiculum in the Torlonia catacomb in which are depicted various Jewish symbols and cult objects including the Menorah, the ethrog, shofar and the lulav.
		Painted rear wall of an arcosolium depicting rosette-studded curtains, which are drawn back to reveal a torah shrine flanked by blazing menorahs and the traditional cult symbols.
	www.catacombsociety.org /nfr_2-3-2000.html (410 words)

	Villa Morgagni Hotel Rome - Hotel in Rome, Italy - The Museum of the Casina delle Civette
		Two latter transformations gave it its present appearance, one around 1910 and the other between 1917 and 1920 at the request of Giovanni Torlonia Jr., the nephew of Alessandro, who decided to transform it into a residence for himself according to the style of the times, abandoning the immense and grandiose palace.
		The death of Giovanni Torlonia in 1939 marked the beginning of the decline of the Casina and consequently the entire Villa.
		The restoration was accompanied by its transformation into a museum with the exhibition not only of the stained-glass windows commissioned by Giovanni Torlonia accurately replaced in their original locations after a difficult and delicate restoration, but also a substantial nucleus of other stained glass pieces, studies and cartoons.
	www.villamorgagni.it /museo_della_civetta_eng.html (637 words)

	The Papal Court before the Reforms of 1968 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This abolished the role of the old Roman nobility at the Papal Court with the exception of the position of Prince Assistant to the Papal Throne.
		This position had been shared jointly by the Princes Orsini and Colonna, but the former was deprived by Pius XII after obtaining a divorce and the title was conferred upon Prince Torlonia, Prince of Fucino, Canino and Musignano.
		The Prince Assistants are representatives of the Roman Nobility, who serve "at the feet of the Throne" immediately next to the Cardinal Deacon who stands to the right of the Pope.
	www.chivalricorders.org /vatican/pplcourt.htm (439 words)

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		The villa was built for Torlonia family, one of the more important of Rome (many popes and cardinals were of this family.
		It was the official house of Mussolini, in the period when he was first minister of Italian government.
		It is located inside the park of Villa Torlonia, Count Torlonia retired in this house, when he gave his villa in use to Mussolini.
	www.angelfire.com /magic2/roma/rome.htm (534 words)

	The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy
		Jane de Glehn (1873-1961) painting with her husband Wilfrid (1870-1951) at the Fountain at Villa Torlonia in Frascati, Italy.
		Married in 1904, both were often traveling companions of John's between 1905 and 1914 when they all would visit such places as the south of France, Spain, places in Italy -- Venice and the Alps.
		At his trial Emmet requested that no epitaph be written for him until Ireland took her place among the nations of the earth.
	www.jssgallery.org /Paintings/The_Fountain_Villa_Torlonia_Frascati.htm (1618 words)

	rogueclassicism: Jewish Catacombs in Rome
		The lines of tombs and niches are cut into the sides of winding galleries dug in soft tufa stone to create one of six known Jewish catacombs in Rome.
		The catacombs are under the city park that surrounds Villa Torlonia, where dictator Benito Mussolini lived for 20 years.
		Rutgers said that to confirm his findings, radiocarbon dating would have to be used on Christian catacombs as well, as those burials are usually dated by evaluating the style of the decoration and architecture used on site.
	www.atrium-media.com /rogueclassicism/Posts/00001006.html (544 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Unique Roman collection to be restored to view
		The Torlonia marbles include more than 600 statues and tombs, among them 100 contemporary representations of emperors and their families.
		The collection was begun in 1810 by Giovanni Torlonia and expanded by his son Alessandro.
		The Torlonia's treasures disappeared from public view in the early 1960s when the family turned the exhibition building into a block of flats.
	www.guardian.co.uk /italy/story/0,12576,1295466,00.html (515 words)

	cultural information
		The Villa Torlonia complex has been expropriated and opened to the pubblic from the Municipality in the 1978 but, while the park has been used immediately, the uncertain conditions in which the buildings were, imposed lengthy and expensive repairs.
		The "Casina delle Civette", plunged among the Californian palms and Himalaya cedars, was planned by the architect Jappelli in the 1842 like a "capanna svizzera" and reflected the purpose of solitary and romantic refuge: primitive and wild, typical of english gardens.
		Among the best stained-glass windows we can remind "the owls" by Cambellotti and "the peafowls" made by Bottazzi, showed in the 1912 glass-window exhibition and from then disappeared, traced and brought recently from a private collection.
	www.romeguide.it /museocivette/museocivette-in.html (423 words)

	Casino della Villa Patrizi fuori di Porta Pia
		In the second half of the XVIIIth century Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia, son of a French merchant, founded his bank, which during the French occupation of Rome at the beginning of the XIXth century grew in importance and made the Torlonia one of (if not the) wealthiest family of Rome.
		The Torlonia acquired a large estate on the right side of Via Nomentana and in 1802 they commissioned to Luigi Valadier the design of its main building.
		In 1842 Prince Alessandro Torlonia embellished the gardens with two brand new obelisks, cut in a marble quarry near Lago Maggiore in northern Italy and brought to Rome by ship, in a sort of repetition of the transportation of the Egyptian obelisks carried by the Roman emperors.
	www.romeartlover.it /Vasi191.htm (611 words)

	torlonia
		The land the Villa was built on, belonged to the Abbey of Grottaferrata which donated it, in 1563, to Annibal Caro who commissioned to build a srnall Villa ("the Caravilla") where he spent the last years of his life, while translating the Aeneid.
		In 1896, Prince Leopoldo Torlonia put a memorial stone just to remember this event.
		In 1671, Beatrice Cenci bought the Villa which was passed in 1596 to Cardinal Tolomeo Galli, bishop of the Tuscolane area from 1591 to 1600 and Secretary of State under Gregory XIII who commissioned the flrst enlargement works.
	www.lnf.infn.it /conference/nn2003/torlonia.html (326 words)

	RealEstateJournal \| Connections Required to Rent Elegant Palazzos
		Her building, on Rome's via della Penitenza, belongs to the Torlonia family of princes, which also produced a pope.
		The structure is an outbuilding of the classy Palazzo Torlonia on via della Lungara, which is inhabited mainly by politicians and prominent intellectuals.
		An official at the Torlonia Administration said that the administration isn't authorized to talk to reporters.
	homes.wsj.com /housegarden/artantiques/20010410-pugliese.html (1224 words)

	Did Christians copy Jewish catacombs? - LiveScience - MSNBC.com
		Leonard Rutgers stands in the Jewish Villa Torlonia catacomb, which he and his colleague have determined was begun a century before the oldest Christian catacombs in Rome.
		The fact that the catacombs are all constructed with similar layouts and architecture suggests a common origin. Rutgers and his colleagues have used radiocarbon dating to show that the Jewish Villa Torlonia catacomb was begun in the second century — and perhaps even earlier — making it the oldest known of the Roman catacombs.
		Rutgers' team carefully extracted pieces of charcoal from the layer of lime used to seal tombs in Villa Torlonia. The bits of charcoal, which was burned to convert limestone into lime, are essentially the only organic samples that remain in the catacombs.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/8644832 (631 words)

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		Leonard Rutgers of Utrecht University in the Netherlands said he and his research team discovered one of the Jewish complexes pre-dates its Christian counterparts by at least 100 years.
		Writing in the journal Nature, Rutgers said his team collected the organic samples from chambers in the Jewish Villa Torlonia catacomb and dated them to between 50 B.C. and A.D. 400, consistent with the chronological layout of the underground so-called "city of the dead."
		Rutgers said the new evidence indicates the Villa Torlonia catacomb came into use more than a century before the building of the earliest Christian catacombs.
	www.physorg.com /printnews.php?newsid=5354 (161 words)

	Daily Telegraph (London, England): Obituary of Infanta Beatriz Torlonia; Great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Daily Telegraph (London, England): Obituary of Infanta Beatriz Torlonia; Great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and daughter and aunt to Kings of Spain, who settled in Rome.(News)(Obituary)@ HighBeam Research
		Obituary of Infanta Beatriz Torlonia; Great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and daughter and aunt to Kings of Spain, who settled in Rome.(News)(Obituary)
		The elder daughter of King Alfonso and Queen Ena of Spain, the Infanta was born at San Ildefenso in Spain on June 22 1909.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:94583109&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (251 words)

	The Beaufort Gazette: Jewish catacomb predates Christian ones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ROME (AP) - A Jewish catacomb in Rome predates its Christian counterparts by at least 100 years, indicating burial in the city's sprawling underground cemeteries may not have begun as a Christian practice, according to a study published Wednesday.
		Radiocarbon dating showed the Villa Torlonia catacomb, a Jewish burial site, was constructed between the first century B.C. and the first century, long before any of Rome's 60 Christian catacombs, Rutgers said.
		Although ancient Latin texts place a Jewish community in Rome as early as the first century B.C., burial places like Villa Torlonia previously were thought to have been used only from the third century, roughly around the time Christians began using catacombs.
	www.beaufortgazette.com /24hour/healthscience/story/2567790p-10992978c.html (765 words)

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		Torlonia family's historical residence and home of Benito Mussolini from 1925 to 1943.
		Visitors can admire some works of the Torlonia family's collection and the bedroom.
		This recently founded museum (1967), contains archaeological material from excavations and collections of the period spanning from late antiquity to the height of the Middle Ages (4th - 13th centuries).
	www.romaturismo.it /allascopertadiroma/en/musei03.html (1361 words)

	Hotel Villa del Parco - 3 Star Hotel - Porta Pia - Rome
		If you arrive at Airport "Leonardo da Vinci" you can decide to catch a taxi or a special train (non-stop shuttle every 30') from Fiumicino to "Termini Station" and subsequently, from the main exit of the station, the bus number 36 or 84 that stop in front of our building.
		You can ask to the driver to stop 2 halts after "Villa Torlonia".
		If you rent a car from the Airport, or are travelling with your own car, you have to admit on G.R.A. (Gran Raccordo Anulare) recognizable by a green signal.
	www.romeby.com /hotelvilladelparco/pages/reach.htm (184 words)

	Catacomb Find Boosts Early Christian-Jewish Ties, Study Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Using radiocarbon dating techniques, the team found that charcoal fragments embedded in lime powder used in the construction of Villa Torlonia dated from 50 B.C. to A.D. The discovery suggests that the Jewish catacomb came into use a century before the earliest Christian sites.
		While all dues support National Geographic's mission of expanding geographic knowledge, 90 percent is designated for the magazine subscription, and no portion should be considered a charitable contribution.
		Historian Leonard Rutgers explores the Villa Torlonia, an ancient Jewish catacomb in Rome.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2005/07/0720_050720_christianity.html (558 words)

	Trove of Roman sculptures may go public - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The collection of 620 Roman statues including 100 portraits of emperors and their relatives were first put on display by Prince Alessandro Torlonia in his palace in the Trastevere neighborhood in 1859 but was stored away in the basement in the 1960s when the Torlonia family converted the palace into apartments.
		Negotiations brokered by the mayor of Rome between the Torlonias and a banking foundation for return of the collection to public view were reported nearly complete.
		The agreement is the result of 15 years of negotiations by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the city of Rome with the Torlonia family.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20050315-115844-2519r.htm (233 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Brumidi, Constantino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was supervised by his painting teachers in carrying out his first important commissions, decorating the palace of Prince Alessandro Torlonia (beginning in 1838) and restoring with Domenico Tojetti (1840–42) the eleventh bay of the third Loggia of the Vatican Palace.
		From 1842 to 1844 he created paintings for the Gothic-style family chapel of the Palazzo Torlonia.
		At the Villa Torlonia, Brumidi is thought to have been in charge of the decoration of the new theatre, where he signed and dated the frescoes in 1844 and 1845.
	www.artnet.com /library/01/0117/T011750.asp (248 words)

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