Neptune and Organ Fountains, Villa d'Este, Tivoli

Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este turned a hillside at Tivoli, east of Rome, into a Renaissance garden run entirely on gravity-fed water, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This view shows the tall jets of the Neptune Fountain, a 20th-century reworking of an older cascade, rising in front of the Organ…

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