Seville, Spain
10th century AD
Madrid, Spain
1738-1755
Palma, Spain
14th century
Segovia, Spain
12th century
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
1563
Olite, Spain
13th century
Aranjuez, Spain
16th century
Valladolid, Spain
1601
Segovia, Spain
1721
Santander, Spain
1909-1911
Burgos, Spain
1187
Fuencarral-El Pardo, Spain
1547-1558
Segovia, Spain
1752-1759
Tordesillas, Spain
1344
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.