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Architectural Building Attractions In Monte Porzio Catone

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Monte Porzio Catone is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the central Italian region Latium, located about 20 kilometres southeast of Rome, on the Alban Hills. Monte Porzio Catone borders the following municipalities: Frascati, Grottaferrata, Monte Compatri and Rome.
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Architectural Building Attractions In Monte Porzio Catone

  • 1. Villa Mondragone Monte Porzio Catone
    Villa Mondragone is a patrician villa originally in the territory of the Italian comune of Frascati , now in the territory of Monte Porzio Catone . It lies on a hill 416m above sea-level, in an area called, from its many castles and villas, Castelli Romani about 20 km southeast of Rome, near the ancient town of Tusculum. Construction began in 1573 by Cardinal Mark Sittich von Hohenems Altemps, who commissioned the design for it and for the Palazzo Altemps in central Rome from Martino Longhi the Elder, on the site of the remains of a Roman villa of the consular family of the Quinctilii. Pope Gregory XIII, whose heraldic dragon led to calling the villa Mondragone, used the villa regularly as a summer residence, as guest of Cardinal Altemps. It was at the Villa Mondragone that in 1582, Gregor...
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