Rambles in Rome / An Archæological and Historical Guide to the Museums, Galleries, Villas, Churches, and Antiquities of Rome and the Campagna

by S. Russell Forbes

THE VILLA WOLKONSKY.

Open on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Permission to be had at the Russian Consulate, Piazza Feoli Corso.

The grounds are tastefully laid out, and are intersected by the arches of Nero's aqueduct. From the roof of the casino, to which the gardener will conduct you (fee, half a franc), a beautiful view may be enjoyed at sunset, looking far away over the Campagna. In the grounds is the columbaria of the family of T. Claudius Vitalis, an architect.

Returning, first turning on the left, passing over the open space skirting under the walls, the curve is part of