Villa D'Este

Saturday and Sunday we were in Rome so that Paul could help President Waddoups with some computer software installs and so we could attend the senior couple get together on Sunday.  Saturday night we went to Tivoli to see the Villa D'Este.  Sister Waddoups and a new senior couple, the Hansens,  came with us.  President Waddoups was in Malta for the weekend. Here we are in the town of Tivoili in front of some castle, not the Villa D'Este.

The gardens are incredible with five hundred fountains and garden pathways and hedges everywhere.  The palace was for the governor of Tivoli and was built before 1550.  But Cardinal Ippolito D'Este, when he became governor, took possession in 1550 and remodeled it. The area for the gardens is so big that they had to demolish a whole area of the town to make room for the elaborate gardens.

I took lots of pictures and also snagged some of sister Waddoup's photos. So if they look familiar, they probably are!