Villa Carlo Alberto al Quirinale

Villa Carlo Alberto al Quirinale is a small park adjacent to a palace with lawns, flower beds and an equestrian statue of King Carlo Alberto.

It is also called the Quirinal Garden; subsequently it took its name from the equestrian monument of Carlo Alberto di Savoia mounted here in 1900. It can be accessed from Via del Quirinale and from the double stairway of Via Piacenza.

The recent restoration of the garden, designed together with the Garden of Piazza Cairoli by Edouardo André at the end of the nineteenth century, has recreated its atmosphere, restoring the walking paths paved with gravel, the romantic lake with tuff cliffs, from which a cascade of water and the plant of vegetation typical of the gardens of the time.

The garden is now protected by two iron gates, taken from a nineteenth-century drawing that was never made.

Of great value is a gigantic Sterculia platanifolia, horse chestnuts and a specimen of phillyrea augustifolia.

It was built in 1893 on the Quirinale, it extends for one hectare with an elliptical central flowerbed, on which the statue of Carlo Alberto was placed in 1900.

The garden is currently managed by the Environment Department.

Map: Villa Carlo Alberto al Quirinale