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Villa d'Este and Villa Adriana from Rome Skip-The-Line Tickets Included
Recommended for your Rome trip
Free Cancellation
up to 24 hours in advance
8 hours (Approx.)
Hotel pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English
Keeping you safe during COVID-19
Overview
Visit the famed gardens of Villa Adriana, as well as Villa d’Este, on this private tour from Rome to Tivoli, where the historical sites are located. Travel with a private driver to reach the villas, and be wowed by the detailed landscaping, fountains, and architecture. You also have time in the town of Tivoli to buy lunch. Upgrade your tour to explore with a licensed tour guide.
- Tivoli tour from Rome with private transport
- Visit Villa d’Este’s renowned Italian gardens
- See the ancient ruins of Villa Adriana
- Avoid long lines with priority admission to both villas
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Your tour begins with hotel pickup by private minivan for the drive from Rome to Tivoli. Arrive first at Villa d’Este, built during the Renaissance years around 1550 for Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este, the governor of Tivoli. Explore the gardens with your guide to see its Bernini-designed fountains and take in the lavish landscaping. This icon of Italian-style garden has been imitated around the world, so much so that composer Franz Liszt wrote a piano suite entitled ‘Fountains of the Villa d’Este.
Next, you have free time in the town of Tivoli. Visit a restaurant where you can have lunch (own expense), and enjoy time to walk around town and take in views of the Roman countryside.
Then head to Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa), originally home to Roman Emperor Hadrian. Built in the 2nd century AD, the 'villa' is really of a complex of 30-plus structures covering 250 acres (1 square km) of land, much of which is unexcavated. You can see examples of an Alexandrian garden and admire the remains of palaces, temples, a theater, baths, staterooms and quarters for everyone from courtiers to slaves. ’
Your tour ends with return to Rome for hotel drop-off.
Please note: if you'd like to have an official licensed guide with you while exploring Villa d'Este and Villa Adriana, please selecte the option at checkout.
Next, you have free time in the town of Tivoli. Visit a restaurant where you can have lunch (own expense), and enjoy time to walk around town and take in views of the Roman countryside.
Then head to Villa Adriana (Hadrian’s Villa), originally home to Roman Emperor Hadrian. Built in the 2nd century AD, the 'villa' is really of a complex of 30-plus structures covering 250 acres (1 square km) of land, much of which is unexcavated. You can see examples of an Alexandrian garden and admire the remains of palaces, temples, a theater, baths, staterooms and quarters for everyone from courtiers to slaves. ’
Your tour ends with return to Rome for hotel drop-off.
Please note: if you'd like to have an official licensed guide with you while exploring Villa d'Este and Villa Adriana, please selecte the option at checkout.
Itinerary
Tour Description:
Your English-speaking Driver will pick you up from your accommodation in Rome.
In around 45 minutes you’ll reach Tivoli town, where you’ll tour Villa D'este first (Skip-The-Line Tickets included).
Then you’ll spend some time in the town of Tivoli itself and take a leisurely stroll in the small ancient town, the town offers a wide view over the Roman countryside, stopping also for lunch in a good restaurant with an unbelievable location (own expense).
In the afternoon, you’ll visit Villa Adriana.
After Villa Adriana visit you will return to your accommodation in Rome.
Is possible to have an Official Licensed Tour Guide (selecting Tour Guide Included Option) for the Villa D'Este and Villa Adriana.
If no private licensed guide is chosen, you can rent audio-guides (available in English, French, German and Spanish).
Villa d’Este, masterpiece of the Italian Garden, is included in the UNESCO world heritage list. With its impressive concentration of fountains, nymphs, grottoes, plays of water, and music, it constitutes a much-copied model for European gardens in the mannerist and baroque styles.
Walk around the Villa with your private local guide (if option guide included booked), taking in the gardens and posing for photos in front of Bernini-designed fountains while learning about the Cardinal and his lavish life in the Villa. Villa d'Este's fame, however, is due more to its gardens than to the building itself.
This most famous Italian-style garden, which has been imitated, reverberates with the sound of so many fountains that inspired the Romantic composer Franz Liszt to write a piano suite called “Fountains of the Villa d'Este.”
Duration: 2 hours
Admission Ticket Included
Lunch Time (own expense) we strongly suggest an incredible location where you will be part of the "History".
King Frederick William III of Prussia, Prince Jerome Napoleon, Gabriele D’Annunzio and Pietro Mascagni; Today Secretaries of State and Vice-Presidents of the USA, Hiroito the Emperor of Japan, Princess Margaret of Inghilterra, singer Yoko Ono and the first man on the moon Armstrong. This is only part of the gallery of the celebrities who have chosen this restaurant.
Duration: 2 hours
Admission Ticket Not Included
Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli is one of the Italian UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Built by the request of the Emperor Hadrian, the Villa is a monumental living complex that even today continues to display the lavishness and enormous power of Ancient Rome.
The magnificent Hadrian’s Villa (Villa Adriana), the former holiday home of Emperor Hadrian. It was built in the 2nd century AD. It's more similar to a small village than a home in today’s sense of the word.
Hadrian's Villa was a complex of over 30 buildings, covering an area of at least 1 square kilometers (c. 250 acres) of which much is still not excavated. The Villa was the greatest Roman example of an Alexandrian garden, recreating a sacred landscape.
The complex included palaces, several baths, theatre, temples, libraries, staterooms, and quarters for courtiers, praetorians, and slaves.
Duration: 2 hours
Admission Ticket Included
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