Villa d’Este, Unesco Site, Tivoli, Italy
Grand 16th-century cardinal’s villa in exotic hillside gardens with elaborate fountains & grottoes. “Wherever you may turn the watch will gush springs in so many ways and with such design splendor, to be no place in all the earth that in this genre is much lower” by Uberto Foglietta Letter to Flavio Orsino, 1569,
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