Villa d'Este

Villa d'Este is a Renaissance villa in Tivoli, near Rome, built from 1560 into the 1570s for Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este. It is celebrated above all for its garden, whose fountain system includes dozens of fountains and nymphaeums along with hundreds of water jets and basins, all fed entirely by gravity without pumps, among them the Oval Fountain, the Hundred Fountains, the Fountain of the Dragons, and the hydraulic Fountain of the Organ. The villa and garden are considered a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance design and engineering, and UNESCO inscribed the site as a World Heritage property in 2001. It is distinct from the Grand Hotel Villa d'Este on Lake Como, a separate historic building that took the same name. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/