VILLA BORGHESE
This villa was built in 1648 by cardinal Vincenzo Costaguti who belonged to a wealthy family of Genoese bankers established in Rome at the end of the 1500s. The Costaguti family owned it until 1818, the year in which, because of debts, they were forced to sell Ihe property to Don Giovanni Torlonia. In 1832 it was acquired by prince Camillo Borghese, the husband of Paolina Bonaparte who was the sister of Napoleon I. Since then, Ihe Villa Bell'Aspetto, which is how the villa is known, has belonged to the Borghese family, and they are its present owners. During the summer of 1903 Gabriele D'Annunzio stayed at Villa Borghese and, gazing at the "Neronian sea", wrote his pastoral tragedy The Daughter of Jorio. In 1978 four hectares of the park, out of a total of approximately forty, were donated to the City of Nettuno to become a public garden. The side of the villa facing the sea has remained practically unchanged over the years and gives a rather austere impression, without any oulslanding decorative ornamentation. More varied and complex is the northern side thal faces the mount, for it has
balustrades, ovals and a balcony that runs along the entire fagade connecting the two wings. A central niche is adorned with an Sebo Musicante statue .
