Parco Nemorense o Virgiliano, Urban park in Quartiere Africano, Rome, Italy.
Parco Nemorense, also known as Parco Virgiliano, is an urban park in the Trieste district of Rome, on Via Nemorense. Architect Raffaele De Vico designed it with a main avenue circling the whole park and three cross paths leading to children's play areas, a café and a concert area. In the south, a piazzale has small lakes in De Vico's naturalistic style.
Raffaele De Vico designed the park with a main avenue encircling it and three cross paths leading to the children's games, the café and the concert area. The southern square holds small lakes in De Vico's style, recalling a natural landscape. The park was inaugurated by Benito Mussolini, completing the INCIS district built for state employees. Its name honours Virgil on the bimillennium of the poet's birth.
The park's name honours the poet Virgil, chosen for the two-thousandth anniversary of his birth. De Vico planted the main avenue with lindens, the pond avenue with pines, and the secondary paths with holm oaks and prunus pissardi. Two travertine fountains shaped like a shell and a fig branch spout water from a mascaron.
The park lies on Via Nemorense in the Trieste district; a main avenue circles the whole grounds and three cross paths lead to the children's play area, the café and the concert area. The bocce court was converted into a children's play area, so do not count on finding one. The chalet built in 1933 now serves drinks and sandwiches.
The chalet built in 1933 was meant as a rustic substitute for the open-air concert cavea De Vico designed, which was never built. Over the years it has served as a café and today operates as a kiosk selling drinks and sandwiches.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 93,804 contributors worldwide.