Villa D’Este

There was this day when I really wanted to go somewhere, but it was raining, money were low, I was pretty tired, and a million other different reasons, but the urge to go somewhere was too big, so I found one option that worked perfectly for me – I went to Tivoli. Why was it perfect? Well, first of all a ticket is only 2.20 euros, busses to Tivoli go every 10-15 minutes, the departure is from a little bus station a couple metro stations from the place I live and Tivoli is a place to visit for several times because it is not possible to see everything in one day and stay sane. So I’ve googled it and found out that Tivoli has a couple of villas that are worth visiting and I had to decide between ancient ruins, a huge waterfall and magic gardens. The first one and the second one were pretty hard to find, but the third one is right there at the bus stop, so that was it! The villa I went to was Villa D’Este. When I was walking through the hallways and rooms of this place, I had one thought – how can one live in a place like that? It’s like a museum, it must be tiring for the eyes, no empty spot on the wall, and I haven’t seen the furniture, I can imagine how it would look like, especially concerning the fact that this Villa belonged to the son of Lucrezia Borgia, royal family, should have been posh :)

But then I saw the gardens. These gardens reminded me of Bahai gardens in Israel because those ones also had multiple levels, fountains and figured stuff, don’t really know how to call it. Surely they are different, people actually live to make Baha’i Gardens beautiful, they are full of perfectionism, because that is one of the ways they honor God. Here the story is a bit different – this used to be someone’s property, now it belongs to Italian government and ruins must remain untouched :)As to me, some renovation might be good, because the building has some fractures, the paint is far from being fresh etc., but that doesn’t make the place less beautiful. Anyway, that doesn’t diminish the mightiness of the place, not for a tiny bit – the place is amazing, you can walk through the gardens for hours, always find something interesting and beautiful. I can not imagine how many people have worked to make it real, how creative were the people who had the idea of it in their head, awwwwwww :)

Oh, and also the town itself is beautiful! I’ve captured with my camera a couple of places around the Villa, not much though, but enough to get the basic idea :)

Anyway, you can read about Villa D’Este here, but I’m all about the pictures, so enjoy! :)