Tivoli

I went with my friends to Tivoli today. It is a town outside of Rome, with the main attractions being ancient villa's. The most famous of which is Villa d'Este. It is a Unesco world heritage site, and in fact was awarded the European Best Park award in 2007.

There is a very clever use of water in the gardens, with over 500 water jets in fountains and pools, and multiple water troughs. The river was actually rerouted about a kilometer to provide water for the fountains. Unfortunately pictures can't convey effectively the beauty of the gardens. Apart from the water features, there is also plenty of flowers, fruit trees and other sculptures. This is the row of fountains, there are over 100 fountains in this row alone!

This is a view of the main fountain - I forget the name....


After Villa d'este we walked through the town of Tivoli to the other side and visited Villa Gregoriana. This was a fantastic park with both natural and man made waterfalls. We took a long walk through the forest and got some fantastic views of the waterfalls.


Tomorrow its off to Pompei..