 The Roman villa was an elaborately decorated suburban casino or (lodge), that stood only for some decades after completion in 1630, just at the then-outskirts of Rome (now Pigneto Sacchetti train stop) at the foot of Monte Mario.From the top rampart of the garden entrance, one should have been able to glimpse above the surrounding pine forest ("pigneto") the domes of St Peter's Basilica and central Rome.As the name casino implies, this was a "pleasure house", a lodge where notables could take refuge from the crowded Rome.