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Stock Photo: Villa Wolkonsky, The Official Residence Of The British Ambassador To Italy In Rome
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The Villa Wolkonsky was built in the 1890s by the descendants of the Russian Princess Zenaide Wolkonsky, wife of an Aide-de-Camp of Tsar Alexander I.In 1830 Princess Zenaida Wolkonsky bought a large piece of farmland next to St John's Basilica to create a refuge, away from the hustle and bustle of central Rome, where she could entertain her artist and literary friends. Thirty-six spans of the Neronian aqueduct, built in the first century AD, run through the property, and the princess would build a villa resting on three of the arches.Along the rest of the aqueduct she would develop a romantic-style garden, which would become famous for its roses and Roman artefacts, most of them from the tombs along the aqueduct's route. The Villa was the seat of the German Embassy from the 1920s until 1943 and then, from 1947, it became the seat of the British Embassy
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