Villa Falconieri
The Villa Falconieri is a villa in the Italian city of Frascati , just under 20 kilometers southeast of Rome .
history
Villa Falconieri is the oldest of a series of villas in Frascati. It was built on behalf of Alessandro Rufini, which is why it was initially called Villa Rufina . It was built on the foundations of an existing Roman villa, so that in one room on the ground floor even the original Roman mosaic floor has been preserved. In 1546 Pope Paul III. they expand. In 1628, Orazio Falconieri bought the building and commissioned Francesco Borromini to oversee the renovation work. His goal was to have a burial place built for himself and his brother, Cardinal Lelio Falconieri, on the grounds of the villa. In addition to Borromini, important architects such as Antonio da Sangallo the Younger participated in the redesign of the house . The frescoes inside were u. a. made by Pier Leone Ghezzi , Giacinto Calandrucci , Ciro Ferri , Andrea Locatelli and Niccolò Berrettoni . The villa has an extensive park that was laid out in the 17th century.
The German writer Richard Voss lived in the building from 1874 and wrote some of his works here, including the novel Villa Falconieri published in 1896 . The story of a passion that was filmed in 1928 . In 1905 the Berlin banker Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy bought the villa and gave it to Kaiser Wilhelm II as a gift in 1907 . In April 1911, Crown Prince Wilhelm and his wife Princess Cecilie visited the Villa Falconieri. In 1921 it was expropriated by the Italian state and damaged by bombing during the Second World War , but was then thoroughly restored. Today the villa houses the Accademia Vivarium Novum , after the headquarters of the INVALSI (Istituto nazionale per la valutazione del sistema dell'istruzione) together with the Centro Europeo dell 'Educazione (CEDE) were moved to Rome in 2015.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 48 ′ 26 " N , 12 ° 41 ′ 22" E