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Villa Torlonia Museum: All about Mussolini House in Rome
The beautiful Villa Torlonia and its annex the Casina Delle Civette is a lesser known but no less impressive Rome attraction.
Located a short walk from the Villa Borghese, the lush grounds alone are a reason to visit.
The Villa gets its name from the Torlonia family – a wealthy family who had made their wealth as administrators for the Vatican.
The History of Villa Torlonia
The Torlonia family commissioned the conversion of a building in the grounds into a villa in the early 1800s.
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Over 30 years Giovanni Torlonia, and later his son, worked on the villa and the Casina Delle Civette.
They also constructed stables, laid out the English style gardens and constructed some interesting monuments within the grounds.
Villa Torlonia – Mussolini House Rome
From the 1920s, Mussolini rented the house from the family.
He paid the princely sum of one lira per annum. He retained the lease until 1943. He