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Villa d'Este
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Key facts
- Location
- Tivoli , Italy
- Criteria
- Cultural: i, ii, iii, iv, vi
- Inscription
- 2001 (25th Session )
- Area
- 4.5 ha
- Buffer zone
- 7 ha
- Website
- villae.cultura.gov.it
- Coordinates
- 41°57′45″N 12°47′46″E / 41.96250°N 12.79611°E / 41.96250; 12.79611
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Tivoli
- Area
- 44400
- Employees
- 47
- Official website
- www.villadestetivoli.info
- Image
- Villa d'Este 01.jpg
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- architect
- Pirro Ligorio
- Commons category
- Villa d'Este (Tivoli)
- architectural style
- Renaissance architecture
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- Commons gallery
- Villa d'Este (Tivoli)
- commissioned by
- Ippolito II d'Este
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- main building contractor
- Ippolito II d'Este
- native label
- Villa d'Este
- postal code
- 00019
- visitors per year
- 355728
- street address
- Piazza Trento 5, Tivoli
- uses
- digital library
- Wi-Fi access
- no
- collection or exhibition size
- 25
- has facility
- café
- number of volunteers
- 10
- name
- villa de Tigoli
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Encyclopedic overview
The Villa d'Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome. It is a masterpiece of Italian architecture and garden design, famous for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and the ingenuity of its architectural features (fountains, ornamental basins, ceilings, etc.), it is an incomparable example of a 16th-century Italian garden, which later had a huge influence on landscape design in Europe. It is now an Italian state museum, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Villa d'Este” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.