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Villa Ada is one of Rome's largest parks, a sweep of woods, meadows and rolling hills that was once the private estate of the Savoy royal family and a summer retreat of King Victor Emmanuel III. At its heart lies a calm natural lake, ringed by willows and reeds and frequented by herons, turtles and joggers.
Just outside Villa Ada, the Catacombs of Priscilla are among the oldest and most important early-Christian burial grounds in Rome — a multi-level labyrinth of tunnels dug into soft volcanic rock from the 2nd century, where Christians laid their dead in the centuries when the faith was still illegal.
The elegant 18th-century villa at the centre of the park — properly the Villa Reale — was the residence of King Victor Emmanuel III, and it witnessed one of the turning points of modern Italian history. It was here, on 25 July 1943, that the king dismissed and arrested Benito Mussolini after a meeting, ending two decades of Fascist rule; Mussolini was bundled into an ambulance in the grounds.
Among the oldest and most important of Rome's Christian catacombs, the Catacombs of Priscilla open off the Via Salaria in the north of the city, dug from the 2nd century AD into the soft tufa rock. Miles of dark galleries on several levels once held the tombs of early Christians, martyrs and several popes, earning the complex its old nickname, the 'queen of the catacombs'.
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