Tivoli Travel Guide

Villa d’Este, masterpiece of the Italian Garden, is included in the UNESCO world heritage list. With its impressive concentration of fountains, nymphs, grottoes, plays of water, and music, it constitutes a much-copied model for European gardens in the mannerist and baroque styles.The garden is generally considered within the larger –and altogether extraordinary-- context of Tivoli itself: its landscape, art and history which includes the important ruins of ancient villas such as the Villa Adriana, as well as a zone rich in caves and waterfalls displaying the unending battle between water and stone. The imposing constructions and the series of terraces above terraces bring to mind the hanging gardens of Babylon, one of the wonders of the ancient world. The addition of water-- including an aqueduct tunneling beneath the city -- evokes the engineering skill of the Romans themselves.

Here you must go for the Garden and go a day when its warm. The fountains, the sun, the garden, the smell from the flowers is out of this world. 

The Villa D'Este is fantastic. Quiet, natural, less touristy and ruined than Hadrian's Villa. Spend the whole afternoon there! It's has a tranquil, lush atmosphere.