Left atrium to the left of the so-called Armour and crossed the Atrium of the Four Gates, we arrive at the Cortile della Pigna, housed in the Belvedere sixteenth of the space.The latter was designed in 1506 by the architect Donato Bramante, at the behest of Julius II to connect the Palace of Innocent VIII (1484-1492), the Sistine Chapel, built by Sixtus IV (1471-1484). The Courtyard at the time was divided into three areas with different heights, connected by ramps, elegant, and flanked by buildings punctuated by pilasters topped with wide arches. The floor and the side arms were slightly inclined towards the Sistine Chapel, in order to bring up the courtyard, overlooked by those in the papal apartments, even bigger than reality. At the north was expected to finish a large niche perspective flight: it was built, as we see it today in what is called the Cortile della Pigna, in 1565 by the architect Pirro Ligorio, modeled on the dome of the Pantheon. The evocative prints of the first half of the sixteenth century give an idea of ??the festivities and carousels that were held here. At the end of 1500 the Belvedere Court was divided in two by the construction of a cross arm of the Library of Sixtus V (1585-1590). So in 1822 they built a second building cross-called "New Wing" is intended to contain a collection of statues. Today, there are also three open spaces: the Cortile della Pigna, Courtyard of the Library and the Cortile del Belvedere.
Il Cortile della Pigna is so called by a colossal bronze pinecone almost 4 meters high, which in classical times was in Rome near the Pantheon, that gave its name to the "Pigna district" in the Middle Ages was probably brought in ' atrium of the ancient Basilica of St. Peter, moved here in 1608. On either side are two bronze peacocks, with original copies of the second century AD, preserved in the New Wing. At the center of the vast open space are two concentric spheres by sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro (1990).
The visitor who enters for the first time in the Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo certainly can not imagine being faced with substantial remains of one of the most famous ancient villas, the Albanum Domitiani, the magnificent country residence of the emperor Domitian (81 -96 AD), which covers about 14 square kilometers from the Via Appia to include the lake Albano. The Pontifical Villas extend over the remains of the central part of the residence, which included, according to the hypothesis formulated by eminent scholars, the Arx Albana, located at the hill of Castel Gandolfo, where he is now the Papal Palace and that was once the center of Alba Longa.
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