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14 Facts About Villa d'Este

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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.

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Villa d'Este was a lavish patron of the arts, supporting among others the sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, the musician Pierluigi da Palestrina and the poet Torquato Tasso.

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Villa d'Este appeared destined to become Pope and used all of his money and influence toward that goal, but at the time of the Reformation and the Council of Trent, his extravagant style of life worked against him.

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4.

Villa d'Este was five times a candidate for Pope, but was never selected.

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Villa d'Este obtained an abundant supply of marble and statuary from the ruins of Hadrian's villa.

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Villa d'Este turned more and more of his attention to the decoration of his villa.

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Villa d'Este spent more and more of his time in the villa, reading and meeting with the leading poets, artists and philosophers of the Renaissance.

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8.

Villa d'Este persuaded Pope Gregory XV to formally grant ownership of the villa to the Este family.

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In 1796, the House of Habsburg took possession of the villa, after Ercole III d'Este bequeathed it to his daughter Maria Beatrice, married to Grand Duke Ferdinand of Habsburg.

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10.

The centrepiece of the courtyard is the Fountain of Venus, the only fountain in the Villa d'Este which retains its original appearance and decoration.

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11.

Villa d'Este's traveled to Italy where she lived in the Tiburtine forests, giving prophecies and predicting the birth of Christ.

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12.

Fame and glory of the Villa d'Este was above all established by its extraordinary system of fountains; fifty-one fountains and nymphaeums, 398 spouts, 364 water jets, 64 waterfalls, and 220 basins, fed by 875 metres of canals, channels and cascades, and all working entirely by the force of gravity, without pumps.

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At Villa d'Este he was assisted in the technical designs for the fountains by a Frenchman, Claude Venard, who was a manufacturer of hydraulic organs.

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14.

Fountains of the Villa d'Este eagle are a group of small rustic fountains, with water spurting up from stone bowls, with a variety of themes.

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