Stone staircase in the garden of Villa d'Este in Tivoli, near Rome, Lazio, Italy
This Black & White image shows a stone staircase in the garden of Villa d'Este in Tivoli, near Rome, Lazio, Italy Villa d'Este is a villa in Tivoli, Italy, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site. It is a fine example of Renaissance architecture and the Italian Renaissance garden. The Villa d'Este was commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este, son of Alfonso I d'Este and Lucrezia Borgia and grandson of Pope Alexander VI. He had been appointed Governor of Tivoli by Pope Julius III, with the gift of the existing palace, which he had entirely reconstructed to plans of Pirro Ligorio carried out under the direction of the Ferrarese architect-engineer Alberto Galvani, court architect of the Este. The villa itself is surrounded on three sides by a sixteenth-century courtyard sited on the former Benedictine cloister. The garden plan is laid out on a central axis with subsidiary cross-axes, refreshed by some five hundred jets in fountains, pools and water troughs. The water is supplied by the Aniene, which is partly diverted through the town, a distance of a kilometer, and, originally, by the Rivellese spring, which supplied a cistern under the villa's courtyard (now supplied by the Aniene too). The garden is now part of the Grandi Giardini Italiani.
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Location: Villa d'Este, Tivoli, near Rome, Italy.
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