Noto, Italy
4th century AD
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
101-106 AD
Aosta, Italy
25 BC
Villanueva del Río y Minas, Spain
1st century BCE
Venosa, Italy
c. 100 AD
Alderney, United Kingdom
4th century AD
Svishtov, Bulgaria
1st century AD
Ronda, Spain
45 BCE
Echternach, Luxembourg
0-200 AD
Rome, Italy
306-312
Marbella, Spain
0-100 AD
Serravalle Scrivia, Italy
191 BCE
Conza della Campania, Italy
3rd century BCE
Bollendorf, Germany
2nd century AD
Neustadt an der Donau, Germany
c. 80 AD
Castelseprio, Italy
4th century AD
Oliva de Plasencia, Spain
1st century AD
Gennes, France
2nd century AD
Séviac, France
2nd century AD
Razgrad, Bulgaria
1st century AD
The Villa d'Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome, famous for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and especially for its profusion of fountains: the extraordinary system contains fifty-one fountains and nymphaeums, 398 spouts, 364 water jets, 64 waterfalls, and 220 basins, fed by 875 meters of canals, channels and cascades, and all working entirely by the force of gravity, without pumps. It is now an Italian state museum, and is listed as a UNESCO world heritage site.
Tivoli had been a popular summer residence since ancient Roman times due to its altitude, cooler temperatures and its proximity to the Villa Hadriana, the summer residence of the Emperor Hadrian I.
The Villa was commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este (1509-1572), second son of Alfonso I d'Este, the Duke of Ferrara and grandson of Pope Alexander VI, along with Lucrezia Borgia.