Tivoli, Lazio
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Tivoli is a town and comune in Lazio, Central Italy, 30 kilometres north-east of the city centre of Rome, at the falls of the Aniene river where it issues from the Sabine Hills. The city offers a wide
Left from top: Villa d'Este Fountain, Rocca Pia, View of Villa d'Este, Temple of Vesta, Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli Cathedral
Detail from the Villa Gregoriana
The castle of Rocca Pia, built in 1461 by Pope Pius II, and the Roman amphitheatre
View of the World Heritage park of Villa d'Este in Tivoli
Villa d'Este
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The Villa d'Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome. It is a masterpiece of Italian architecture and garden design, famous for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and the ingenu
Tivoli, Lazio
…the permanence of papal temporal power here. From the sixteenth century, the city saw further construction of villas. The most famous of these is the Villa d'Este, a World Heritage Site. Its construction was started in 1550 by Pirro Ligorio for Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este. The villa was richly decorated with…
Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, creator of the Villa d'Este and its gardens
The Villa and gardens in 1560–1575
Park of the Villa d'Este, Carl Blechen, 1830. The overgrown garden appealed to the Romantic imagination; today this same view is once again manicured.