The Quadriennale is based in the monumental Villa Carpegna complex. Within this complex, the Casino Nobile houses the head office of the institution and the rooms used for initiatives open to the public. The 19th-century farmhouse houses the Library Archive. Villa Carpegna belongs to the Municipality of Rome, which purchased it in 1978, carrying out major renovation work on it between 1998 and 2000. The 19th-century Casale was restored even more recently in 2005. The Villa, in the heart of the Aurelio district behind St Peter’s, dates back to the late 17th century. The public park that surrounds it still bears traces of its original paths and outlines of fountains and nymphaeums typical of suburban villas of ‘delights’.
