Orange Garden, Rome

The Orange Garden (italiano. Giardino degli Aranci) is the name used in Rome to describe the Savello park (Parco Savello). It is about 7,800 square meters and is located on the Aventine Hill. The park offers an excellent view of the city. The garden, as it is today, was designed in 1932 by Raffaele De Vico. It was constructed to offer public access to the view from the side of the hill, creating a new ‘’belvedere’’, to be added to the existing viewpoints in Rome from the Pincian Hill and the Janiculum.

History

The garden, whose name comes from the many bitter orange trees growing there, extends over the area of an ancient fortress built near the basilica of Santa Sabina by the Savelli family between 1285 and 1287, which, in turn, was built over an old castle constructed by the Crescentii in the tenth century. The garden is bordered by a wall that once surrounded the Savelli castle and other remains of the castle can also be still seen.

The castle was later given to the Dominican Order from Santa Sabina, which transformed it into a monastery, and the small park into a vegetable garden. According to legend Saint Dominic gave the garden its first orange tree, after transporting a sapling from Spain. Legend also tells that Saint Catherine of Siena picked the oranges from this tree and made candied fruit, which she gave to Pope Urban VI.

Modern park

The garden setting is very symmetrical, with a central avenue aligned with the viewpoint, and later named in honour of the actor Nino Manfredi. The central square is named after another Roman actor, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, who for many years led the ongoing summer theatre season in the park.

The fountain at the entrance in Piazza Pietro D'Illiria is made up of two separate pieces: a Roman thermal bath, and a monumental marble mask originally carved to adorn a fountain built in 1593 by Giacomo della Porta for a cattle market (Campo Vaccino) in the centre of Rome. The mask has a long history. After the dismantling in 1816 of the Campo Vaccino fountain, it was recovered and from 1827 used to decorate a fountain erected on the right bank of the Tiber. This fountain was demolished in 1890 and the sculpture was kept in municipal warehouses until being moved to its present location.

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  • List of parks and gardens in Rome
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Shivchenka
15 June 2017
Best sunsets in Rome. Take pizza, wine/beer and come here. Be ready to lots of people around (not like in colliseo).
Merve D
24 February 2015
Provides a beautiful view of the other side of Tevere; Trastevere and San Pietro (and Altare on the rightside) from the top of Aventino hill. On a nice sunny day, perfectly peaceful and lovely.
Rrawat Felkner
28 April 2019
The Orange Garden (Italian: Giardino degli Aranci) is known as Savello park (Parco Savello). Full of orange trees, it is located on the Aventine Hill. The park offers an excellent view of the city.
Petra Rosanics
13 August 2019
An amazing and beautiful, lesser-known park in the heart of the Aventine. The scenery is probably the best in Rome and you can take a look into the Knights of Malta Keyhole next door (pun intended).
Sidira Kuria
20 January 2019
After bocca dela verita we headed in the Orange garden. This is a place with a breathtaking view of Rome (For me, the best visited)! There was also a young man singing with his guitar. Very romantic!
Patrick Puricelli
13 July 2018
A real hidden jem of Rome, this amazing small park has some of the best views over the city and of the St. Peter's cathedral.
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