Giardino del Lago

The lake garden at the heart of Villa Borghese, with an artificial islet in the middle of the water carrying the Tempietto di Esculapio. Roma Capitale's own page records that boats can be hired on the lake, and names the Meridiana and the Fontana della Famiglia dei Satiri along the banks. The planting is subtropical and Mediterranean together, with trachycarpus, chamaerops and phoenix palms, stone pine, cypress, atlas cedar and cedar of Lebanon, swamp cypress, bamboo, magnolia, paulownia and eucalyptus; the recorded birds include peregrine falcon, kestrel, black kite, cormorant, moorhen and mallard.