The “Casina Valadier” is the historic name to refer to the Pincio café, an elegant neoclassical building located in Piazza Bucarest, in Villa Borghese.
During the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy it was Napoleon Bonaparte who commissioned the famous Roman architect and urban planner Giuseppe Valadier, to build the first public park in Rome, with the famous Pincio terrace overlooking Piazza del Popolo and the construction for his Jardin du Grand César of a building that could have one of the most beautiful views of Rome.
It is not difficult to imagine the splendid context in which Casina Valadier was built, located in the heart of Villa Borghese.
After the fall of Napoleon, when Rome returned under the control of the Pope, the works were again entrusted to Valadier who, with some changes, completed the project by creating one of the most important landscape settings of the urban area of that period. The Casina Valadier was designed to house a restaurant on the model of the French bistros.
Today Casina Valadier has once again become an important reference point for both Romans and tourists and, in addition to its historic café, it houses an elegant restaurant and is also the site of major and important national and international events in Rome.
