Borghese Barco - Monteporzio Catone
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The Borghese Barco, is a vast squre shaped esplanade, which was converted into a “barco” (an animal hunting enclosure) by the Altemps starting in 1567, then into an Italianate garden by the Borghese family (in 1613), seeing as it was an integral part of the nearby Villa Mondagone and of the Burghesianum complex.
A third of the Borghese barco explanade has been arranged in a very structured and spectacular sequence of at least 180 vaulted concrete spaces, built around the middle of the 1st C. BC.; these are the foundations of an enormous podium traditionally believed to belong to a Roman villa, and which was later included in a vast imperial estate.
One of the sides forms a very complex monumental façade, used as a scenic backdrop for open air spectacles.
The visit of the Borghese barco in Monteporzio Catone takes place along an extremely fascinating underground itinerary and lasts approximately one hour. Having been salvaged after a long period of abandon, the Borghese Barco in Monteporzio Catone, one of the most impressive of these structures in the Rome area, is still the object of restoration and research.
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