Stock Photo: The Casina Delle Civette In Rome
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The Casina delle Civette House of the Owls, which was the residence of Prince Giovanni Torlania the younger until his death in 1938, is the result of a series of transformations and additions to the nineteenth century “Swiss Cabinâ€ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ, which, positioned at the edge of the park and hidden by an artificial hillock, was originally intended as a refuge from the formality of the main residence. It was designed in 1840 by Giuseppe Jappelli, as a commission for Prince Alessandro Torlonia, using a deliberately fabricated rusticity. The outside of the house was faced with blocks of tufo, while the inside was painted in tempera in imitation of masonry and wooden plankin
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