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00:00 - ENTRANCE TO THE VILLA D'ESTE
01:27 - INTERNAL COURTYARD
03:03 - ROOMS OF THE VILLA
10:02 - GARDENS OF VILLA D'ESTE
25:19 - FONTANA DELL'OVATO
27:16 - AVENUE OF THE HUNDRED FOUNTAINS
30:23 - PROSERPINA FOUNTAIN
31:25 - FOUNTAIN OF THE OWL
32:03 - GARDENS
33:15 - FOUNTAIN OF NEPTUNE
35:45 - ORGAN FOUNTAIN

The Villa d'Este in Tivoli is a Renaissance villa and is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The villa was commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, son of Alfonso I and Lucrezia Borgia, on a site formerly the site of a Roman villa. The history of its construction is linked to the events of the first owner. Pope Julius III del Monte wished to thank Cardinal d'Este for the essential contribution made in 1550 to his election to the papal throne by appointing him governor for life of Tivoli and of his territory. The cardinal arrived in Tivoli on 9 September and made a triumphal entry there, discovering however that he would have to live in an old and uncomfortable convent attached to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, built centuries earlier by the Benedictines, now held by the Franciscans and partially adapted to governor's residence. Ippolito was used to something else, in his Ferrara and also in Rome, but the air of Tivoli benefited him and moreover - a great lover of Roman antiquities - he was very interested in the finds that abounded in the area. He therefore decided to transform the convent into a villa. The work was entrusted to the architect Pirro Ligorio, flanked by an impressive number of artists and artisans. The cardinal barely had time to enjoy the solemn inauguration of the villa, which took place in September 1572 with the visit of Pope Gregory XIII; in fact he died on 2 December of the same year. The first owners were three cardinals of Este, governors of Tivoli: the client Ippolito II, his nephew Luigi until 1586 and finally Alessandro, until 1624. Subsequently, the villa and its facilities, passed to the Habsburgs, were left to perish and the antiques collections were dispersed, until Cardinal Gustav Adolf von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, in the mid-nineteenth century, fell in love with it, restored it and for the rest of the century (until his death in 1896) placed it again at the center of intense artistic activity. worldly. The last private owner of the villa was the Archduke Francesco Ferdinando d'Asburgo-Este, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; he would have liked to get rid of it, selling it to the Italian state for the enormous sum of two million lire at the time, for which the Italian government was beating around the bush for a long time; until the assassination of the archduke in Sarajevo. In 1918, after the First World War, the villa passed to the Italian State which began major restoration works, fully restoring it in the 1920-1930s and opening it to the public.
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