Teatro romano di Anzio
The remains of the theatre of Nero's colony at Anzio, later used as a kiln for firing pottery.
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Villa Adele
Villa Adele is Anzio's municipal villa, on via di Villa Adele. Its history begins in 1594, when Pope Clement VIII launched a programme to lift Anzio out of poverty, with a harbour and new workshops, and also gave a commission to Monsignor Bartolomeo Cesi: he chose a hill within sight of the sea to build the town's first villa, in his family's Vignola-inspired style, and enlarged its park by buying more land.
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After his death the property passed to Federico Cesi, Marquis of Montecelio and first Duke of Acquasparta, father of the founder of the Accademia dei Lincei, who, drawn by the climate, tried to create a botanical garden here but never finished it. His heir, Giovan Federico Cesi, sold it to Camillo Pamphilj for four thousand scudi, and it became the Casino pamphiljano di Capo d'Anzio. In 1834 it was inherited by Francesco Borghese-Aldobrandini, who named it Adele after his wife, a La Rochefoucauld: born in prison and given to a wet nurse, she had been educated at Napoleon's wish in the college of Saint-Cyr and made lady-in-waiting to Empress Joséphine. Widowed in 1839, she devoted herself to charity and opened popular schools run by French nuns.
Under the Borghese the villa was restored and enlarged: from those years date the Art Nouveau Sala delle Conchiglie, the Hall of Shells, and many works by the painter Costantino Ragghianti. On 30 July 1949 the villa was sold to the Società Fondiaria Antium, and on 5 August 1964 it passed to the municipality of Anzio, to become a primary school and a public park. Today it houses council offices, the library, the Civic Archaeological Museum and the Landing Museum, as well as exhibitions, conferences and performances.
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The villa and park are owned by the municipality. Opening times of the park, museums and library should be checked with the town council.
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The Pamphilj took to Rome the finds made during work on Nero's harbour: two of them, the black marble statues of Jupiter and Aesculapius, are now in the Capitoline Museums.
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