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Villa d'Este. / 41.96250°N 12.79611°E / 41.96250; 12.79611. 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. It is now an Italian state museum, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site .
The Villa d'Este, originally Villa del Garovo, is a Renaissance patrician residence in Cernobbio on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy, close to the city of Como.Both the villa and the 25-acre (100,000 m 2) park which surrounds it have undergone significant changes since their sixteenth-century origins as a summer residence for Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio, who had been born in the village.
Villa d'Este, Tivoli Metropolitan City of Rome Capital: 2001 1025; i, ii, iii, iv, vi (cultural) The 16th century-gardens of Vila d'Este are one of the first and best examples of Italian Renaissance gardens. The gardens have a geometric layout in line with Renaissance aesthetics and are decorated with pools and fountains, designed by Pirro ...
Villa d'Este housed religious leaders and local politicians when it was first constructed in the 1500s. A few centuries and renovations later, it turned into a favorite of Hollywood's elite -- and ...
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
Hadrian's Villa ( Italian: Villa Adriana; Latin: Villa Hadriana) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising the ruins and archaeological remains of a large villa complex built around AD 120 by Roman emperor Hadrian near Tivoli outside Rome. It is the most imposing and complex Roman villa known. The complex contains over 30 monumental and scenic ...
Princess Augusta of Great Britain. Signature. Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Caroline Amelia Elizabeth; 17 May 1768 – 7 August 1821) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover from 29 January 1820 until her death in 1821 as the estranged wife of King George IV. She was Princess of Wales from 1795 ...
Villa d'Este (Johannesburg), a National Heritage site in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; Berlin Villa d'Este, a former 1920s restaurant and dance cafe in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany; See also. Palazzina Marfisa d'Este, a Renaissance-style palace, sometimes referred to as a villa, located east of Central Ferrara, Emilia ...