Famous worldwide for its Italian garden, the most beautiful in Europe, for its sound fountains, for its water features and its Renaissance architecture, Villa d’Este in Tivoli is among the symbols of the beauty of the Italian Renaissance. 

Tivoli, a village on the outskirts of Rome, is home to a wonderful Renaissance villa surrounded by a natural landscape characterized by valleys and plains: this is Villa d’Este, built at the end of the sixteenth century to a design by the architect Pirro Logorio and at the behest of Cardinal Ippolito d’Este (son of Lucrezia Borgia and Alfonso I d’Este, Duke of Ferrara). In the mind of Cardinal Villa d’Este he would have to rival the villa of Emperor Hadrian, also in Tivoli.