. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. can be provided in the Temple of Vesta attached to theinn. Pension at both houses. THE VILLA DESTE, near the entrance of the town from Rome, first turning left. It is orna-mented with fountains, ilexes, cypresses, formal plantations andclipped hedges—all very stiff amidst so much natural beauty. Thecasino is decorated with frescoes by F. Zucchero and Muziano. The villa has been neglected and deserted by its j)resent proprietor, RAMBLES IN THE CAMPAGKA
. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. can be provided in the Temple of Vesta attached to theinn. Pension at both houses. THE VILLA DESTE, near the entrance of the town from Rome, first turning left. It is orna-mented with fountains, ilexes, cypresses, formal plantations andclipped hedges—all very stiff amidst so much natural beauty. Thecasino is decorated with frescoes by F. Zucchero and Muziano. The villa has been neglected and deserted by its j)resent proprietor, RAMBLES IN THE CAMPAGKA. 319 Cardinal Baroli, and is fast going to ruin and decay : this rather addsto its picturesque and haunted appearance. If Scott or Dickens hadonly made it the scene of one of their tales, it might have becomehistorical. If your time he limited, omit this villa, THE ANCIENT TIBUR was delightfully situated on the Sabine Hills. The modern town,of 7000 inhabitants, has few attractions excejDt its charming situa-tion and past recollections. It bore the name of Tibur in antiquity,and during the Augustan age the Roman nobles founded splendid. GROTTO OF THE SIBVL, TIVOLI. villas there, among which were those of Augustus himself, Maecenas,and the Empeior Hadrian. The beauties of Tivoli and the suri-ound-ing country were recorded in undying verse by Horace, whose Sabinefarm was not far distant, and who seems to have delighted to dwellin retirement in the neighbouihood rather than in noisy, bustlingRome. The old town held in high reverence Hercules, the Sibyl,and Vesta, and the remains of temples dedicated to the latter arestill visible immediately above the cascades on the edge of thepresent city limits. It is generally in Vestas temple that tourists tothe locality spread out and pai-take of the provisions brought withthem from Rome: this is only advisable in warm weather. Thiscircular Temple of Vesta is surrounded by an open corridor ofCorinthian columns, ten of which still remain.
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