Hotel Pamphili Rome

... this lovely dream too would soon. It was time to get back into the back-to-home mode. They brought us back to a lovely hotel, Villa Pamphilli, in the lap of almost all luxuries (yes, only Hilton had the coffee maker),…to have our last stay together ...

... dei Quattro Fiumi (Four rivers). The 17th C (1651) fountain was built by Bernini (him again) for Pope Innocent X (his Palazzo Pamphili is on the Piazza) and had as its centre the Egyptian Obelisk commissioned by Domitian in 80 AD for the Serapeum ...

... all along the way; we are hoping that he was able to get some good ones. Then we had to return to the Hotel Villa Pamphili to say arrivederci to our new found friends for we were all flying out the next day.  Making so many new friends was an ...

... park area.  After strolling through the park, I can honestly say that it is even more of a jogger's paradise than Rome's Villa Pamphili!  In the middle is the Siegessäule, a 19th-century Prussian Victory column.  It's quite impressive, but ...

... discovered a park only a few blocks away from my apartment that I now consider to be one of my favorite places in Rome. It's called Villa Doria Pamphili and is literally a 5 minute walk away. It definitely made the perfect escape while I was here in Rome. ...