Nin, Croatia
1st century AD
Vienne, France
0-300 AD
Napoli, Italy
37 BCE
Ibiza, Spain
6th century AD
Naples, Italy
19 BCE
Bordeaux, France
2nd century AD
Górtyn, Greece
3200 BC
Torrox, Spain
2nd century BCE
Saintes, France
40-50 AD
Durrës, Albania
0-100 AD
Alange, Spain
2nd century AD
Tarifa, Spain
Roman
Capri, Italy
27 AD
Ascea, Italy
538-535 BCE
Aquileia, Italy
181 BC
Pozzuoli, Italy
2nd century AD
Rapallo, Italy
3rd century BCE
Kempten (Allgäu), Germany
1st century AD
Aosta, Italy
25 BC
Pont-Saint-Martin, Italy
c. 25 BC
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.