page_title: Villa Ada
section_title: Activities
hierarchical_section_title: Villa Ada / Activities
caption_attribution_description: English: Entrance to Savoia bunker, Villa Ada (Rome)
context_page_description: Villa Ada is a park in Rome, Italy, with a surface of 180 hectares it is the second largest in the city after Villa Doria Pamphili. It is located in the northeastern part of the city.
context_section_description: The public portion of the park is much larger than the private area.  It contains an artificial lake and many trees, including stone pines, holm oaks, laurels and a very rare metasequoia, imported from Tibet in 1940.  Entrance to the park is free.  One may rent canoes, bicycles, or riding horses.  There is a large swimming pool.
  Since 1994, during the summer the park hosts the world-music festival and the "Roma incontra il mondo" (Rome meets the World) festival, against racism, war and the death penalty.
  The "Bunker Villa Ada Savoia," a bunker built in the early 1940s by the House of Savoy to protect the King and Queen (King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Queen Elena) from Allied bombs, is now open for tours. The non-profit association, Roma Sotteranea, restored the bunker, which had fallen to ruin and had been vandalized, and runs the tours for a small cost.  To date, all tours have been in Italian.
  Also, Benito Mussolini was taken captive by King Victor Emmanuel III during World War II from that house.
caption: Entrance today to Bunker Villa Savoia
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