The Villa Medici is the home of the Académie de France in Rome founded under Louis XIV and moved to its current location overlooking the city by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803. Its original mission was to ...
Where to look first? Down, perhaps. There, placed on the grounds of the Petit Salon, the Salon de Musique or the Salon des Pensionnaires now lie carpets imported to Rome from Nepal. Many thousand ...
One of the best pieces of real estate in Rome actually belongs to France. The Villa Medici, a Renaissance villa, sits in the heart of the Italian capital, high up on Mount Pincio, with seven hectares ...