{"id":2748,"date":"2026-05-22T12:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.villagrant.it\/cenni-storici\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:27:19","slug":"historical-background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/villagrant.it\/en\/historical-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical background"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/villagrant.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ricevimenti_e_matrimoni_roma-villa_grant_il_borgo_MG_0880-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villagrant.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ricevimenti_e_matrimoni_roma-villa_grant_il_borgo_MG_0880-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/villagrant.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ricevimenti_e_matrimoni_roma-villa_grant_il_borgo_MG_0880-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/villagrant.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ricevimenti_e_matrimoni_roma-villa_grant_il_borgo_MG_0880-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/villagrant.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ricevimenti_e_matrimoni_roma-villa_grant_il_borgo_MG_0880-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/villagrant.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ricevimenti_e_matrimoni_roma-villa_grant_il_borgo_MG_0880.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Villa Grant was built in the 1400s adjacent to an ancient Roman domus, of which some well-preserved parts can still be admired today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">16th-century maps identify the structure as &#8220;Capo Cotto.&#8221; Belonging first to the noble Capranica family, then to the London banker Edward Grant, after various dowry transfers, Villa Grant came into the possession of the Borghese Princes. It was subsequently purchased by the Royal House of Savoy immediately after the Unification of Italy and the proclamation of Rome as the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It remained the property of Vittorio Emanuele III until his death on December 27, 1947, and was then left to his daughters as an undivided inheritance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The adjacent portion belonging to Umberto II was confiscated on January 1st, 1948 (with the entry into force of the Italian Constitution) to form the Presidential Estate of Castel Porziano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vittorio Emanuele II was King of Sardinia from 1848, following the death of his father Carlo Alberto, until 1861 when he became King of Italy (retaining the title of &#8220;II&#8221;, despite being the first King of Italy). An avid hunter with a fondness for the Racconigi Estate, he felt uneasy in Rome, just as he had in Florence. He never stayed at the Quirinale Palace, where Queen Maria Adelaide resided, preferring the more modest Castelporziano, a large estate he purchased right after moving from Florence. He died in 1878 from a severe cold contracted while on his beloved Royal Hunting Estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Villa Grant was built in the 1400s adjacent to an ancient Roman domus, of which some well-preserved parts can still be admired today. 16th-century maps identify the structure as &#8220;Capo Cotto.&#8221; Belonging first to the noble Capranica family, then to the London banker Edward Grant, after various dowry transfers, Villa Grant came into the possession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2748","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villagrant.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villagrant.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villagrant.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villagrant.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villagrant.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/villagrant.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/villagrant.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2748\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villagrant.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}