Villa Ada

Villa Ada is the second largest public park in Rome. The area is 1.8 km ². Villa Ada is located in the north of the city on the Via Salaria, outside the Aurelian walls. Not far is the northerly airfield Rome - Urbe.

The park is divided into a public area and a private. The private area is part of the Egyptian Embassy and is controlled by their staff. The public sector controls the city of Rome with foot patrols by police or Carabinieri. In the public sector held every summer music concerts, you can rent bicycles and rowing boats and riding ponies for hire. There are in this park many foreign species, such as the 1940 planted Metasequoien from Tibet.

On the site of Monte antenna and the ancient settlement Antemnae lie. Part of the Priscilla catacombs below the park. 1872, the area of ​​Victor Emmanuel II was purchased by Umberto I. However, sold to the administrator of the royal estates, Count Tellfner, who named the property after his wife Ada. Acquired in 1904, Victor Emmanuel III. the villa again for the House of Savoy, which even today after prolonged legal disputes after the abolition of the monarchy, a part of the area belongs, while the other part 1957 went into public ownership. As Villa Savoia, the property was a royal residence, was arrested at the Benito Mussolini on 25 July 1943.

At the Villa Savoia today, the Egyptian Embassy to the Quirinal their headquarters