Villino Cagiati

Built in 1902 by the architect Garibaldi Burba, author of other similar palazines in Prati and Parioli. On the façade, it displays exceptional ceramics, with wrought iron and fresco decorations. The ceramics, serried with flowers and fruit, are by the very young Galileo Chini (Florentine, 1873-1956), later one of Italy's greatest decorators.

The wrought ironwork, in the shape of vine leaves, is by Alessandro Mazzucotelli (a Milanese craftsman born in 1865, who was much appreciated abroad); and the frescoes are by Silvio Galimberti, then only thirty years old, who later became the Dean of the Accademia dei Virtuosi at the Pantheon: in fifteenth-century style, they are reminiscent of Botticelli.

The outline of the villa was later somewhat adulterated, with a super elevation; years ago, a famous actor, Thomas Milian, lived in the turret. At the top is an inscription: In Arte Libertas.