Borghese gardens was built in 1551 - 1555 as a summer residence for Pope Julius III; now it contains the Etruscan Museum (Museo Etrusco). The Villa Medici houses the French Academy in Rome, and the Fortezzuola a Gothic garden structure that houses a collection memorializing the academic modern sculptor Pietro Canonica. In the 1650s, Diego Velázquez painted several depictions of this Villa's garden casino festively illuminated at night. Before electricity, such torchlit illuminations carried an excitement hard to conceive today. Other villas scattered through the Villa Borghese gardens are remains of a world exposition in Rome in 1911. The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna located in its grounds has a collection of 19th- and 20th-century paintings emphasizing Italian artists. Architecturally the most notable of the 1911 exposition pavilions is the English pavilion designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens (who later designed New Delhi), now housing the British School at Rome. In popular culture The villa's gardens feature in one of Ottorino Respighi's tone poem Pines of Rome The gardens are described in, and the setting for, chapters 8-11 of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Marble Faun Other points of interest The garden contains a replica of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre built in 2003. Beside the 1911 Exposition's villas, there is the Exposition's Zoo, recently redesigned, with minimal caging, as the Bioparco, and the Zoological Museum (Museo di Zoologia). In 1873 a hydrochronometer on the 1867 design of Gian Battista Embriaco, O.P. inventor and professor of the Roman College of St. Thomas was built in the gardens in emulation of the one at the College of St. Thomas. Another version stands in the gardens of the Pincian Hill. Embriaco had presented two prototypes of his invention at the Paris Universal Exposition in 1867 where it won prizes and great acclaim. Gallery See also List of parks and gardens in Rome Notes External links 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. p. 81. 1960 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2, Part 2. p. 899. Galleria Borghese Borghese Gardens in Rome Borghese, Galleria Art gallery districts Venues of the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic equestrian venues Tourist attractions in Rome Villa Borghese Rome R. IV Campo Marzio Rome R. XVI Ludovisi Rome Q. I Flaminio