Villa Giulia

Villa Giulia is a Renaissance and Mannerist villa built on what was then the edge of Rome between 1551 and 1553 as a suburban pleasure retreat for Pope Julius III. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola designed the main building, Bartolomeo Ammannati created its nymphaeum and garden structures, and Giorgio Vasari and Michelangelo also worked on the project, producing a sequence of courtyards built for entertaining and for escaping the summer heat. The villa is now publicly owned and houses the Museo Nazionale Etrusco, the National Etruscan Museum, displaying its collection of ancient Etruscan art and artifacts. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/