the tiny garden of the Villa Farnesina

Portra 400 analog film images of the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome set in the tiny garden of the art museum and historical small palazzo the Villa Farnesina. The Farnesina was once the suburban home to the Sienese banker Agostino Chigo (1466-1520) who also had a vast Renaissance garden surrounding the villa, growing exotic and local fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Only fragments of the garden remain to the sides and the pretty front entrance, with the largest part remaining being the picaresque back “secret garden”, only visitable by the rare private tour. It’s lovely again in March, and blooms beautifully until early November.

See the Interior of the VILLA FARNESINA art museum, and its murals, frescoes, statues, and paintings in my blog entry here.

Ripening persimmons.

Lovely hedge lined path.

Sign denoting flora.

A column top crowned above another column reminding us we are in the eternal city.

Follow the sign from the main piazza. See the Raffaello frescos and the zodiac murals.

Roman fragments.

Fountain in the courtyard.

Looking through trees and bushes to the architecture of the villa.

Another of the adjacent villa buildings. The charm of potted trees around us.

One of the nearby signs you are approaching the Villa Farnesina.

The Villa Farnesina is included in detail in my Travel Itineraries to Rome and in my Chasing Beauty In Italy and in my upcoming series of books: Cultural Guide Books to Rome.

See the Interior of the VILLA FARNESINA art museum, and its murals, frescoes, statues, and paintings in my blog entry here.