Continuing from the Villa Gregoriana you pass through Tivoli and end up at the gates of the Villa d’Este.

Built in the 1550s for Cardinals from the Catholic Church it was apparently intended for entertaining and the actual villa contains large rooms with views across the valley. While the villas scale is impressive it is the gardens that take your breath away. The entire garden area is terraced and contains a huge array of water features most of which take your breath away from the grand Fountain of the Dragons and Hundred Fountains to a miniature watery reproduction of Rome. The centrepiece, the gigantic Water Organ Fountain, cascades down a huge drop into a series of gentle pools.


Villa d'Este reflections

 View over the gardens and back towards Roma

The hundred metre fountain

Organ fountain



 Mosaic fountain and villa
 



The last fountain in the garden

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