While you may not believe the story that Romulus killed his twin brother Remus for crossing the property line he had staked out on the Palatine, archaeological evidence shows...

Rome's Botanical Gardens were established in 1833, within the gardens of the Palazzo Corsini,which had been the home of Queen Christina of Sweden. But this verdant area at the...

Shortly after Camillo Borghese became Pope Paul V in 1605, his favourite nephew, 26-year-old Scipione Caffarelli Borghese, was made a cardinal. An obsessive love of the arts...

This is a pretty, leafy walled garden, with a rather pokey playground; which doesn't stop swarms of local kids from climbing, running and holding birthday picnics here. The...