The images in this gallery are from the Parco Villa Gregoriana, a charming mannered park located in the ancient hill town of Tivoli - 36 kilometres from Rome.
The Parco Villa Gregoriana is a delightful park set on an almost vertical hillside, with cascades of the Aniene River extending all the way to the floor of the valley. Natural walking paths wind through thick, lush and wild vegetation and woodland providing delightful up-close vistas of a succession of gorges and little...
more »The images in this gallery are from the Parco Villa Gregoriana, a charming mannered park located in the ancient hill town of Tivoli - 36 kilometres from Rome.
The Parco Villa Gregoriana is a delightful park set on an almost vertical hillside, with cascades of the Aniene River extending all the way to the floor of the valley. Natural walking paths wind through thick, lush and wild vegetation and woodland providing delightful up-close vistas of a succession of gorges and little waterfalls, grottoes and temples.
The park is named in honour of Pope Gregory XVI, who in the 1830's, commissioned the construction of vast double tunnels through Monte Catillo in order to ease the periodic flooding of the town and divert the river away from Tivoli.
All through the nineteenth century, Villa Gregoriana was the most popular attraction in Tivoli, a destination of choice of royals, poets and painters, all enchanted by its serene beauty. The Park had fallen into ruin by the end of the 20th century, but has been reopened to the public since 2005 thanks to a major landscape recovery project orchestrated by the FAI- Italian fund for the Environment and the Italian National Trust.
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