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Architects and sculptors treat the myriad parks and gardens as set designs, and nature turns the landscapes, replete with statuesque cypresses, tortuous olive and fig trees, and rows of vineyards, into so many artful backdrops for the daily brio and histrionics of la vita italiana.
From the home of Cardinal Ippolito d’Este, guests can look down at the terraced gardens, the real reason for Tivoli’s fame and your visit: alleys of cypresses and soaring fountains (500 in all, including Bernini’s Bicchierone), grottoes, waterfalls, reflecting pools, and everywhere the cool sound of rushing water.
The result is a bewilderingly beautiful phantasmagoria of fountains, lakes, rock gardens, trees, and flowers: the Sunken Garden, with symmetrical Trees of Life and rockery of gentian, saxifrage, and Lebanon candytuft; the Rose Garden, at its best in July, boasting 150 varieties of hybrid tea and floribunda roses; the Japanese Gardens, with scarlet azaleas, Himalayan blue poppies, weeping larch, and pond with a couple of cranes to bring you good luck; and the dreamy Italian Garden, cypresses singing a song of Tuscany around a cruciform basin filled with water lilies, where once was Mr. and Mrs. Butchart’s tennis court.
Hundreds--and quite possibly thousands--of dogs, cats, and other domestic pets are killed by poisoning each year in this cradle of European civilization, this sun-soaked land of vines and olives and cypresses.
Car drivers can negotiate the winding old side-road Via Vecchia Fiesolana for glimpses of handsome villas half-hidden among the cypresses and olive trees.
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