{"id":22294,"date":"2026-04-24T22:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22294"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:48:50","slug":"daily_4069_-_tivoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/04\/24\/daily_4069_-_tivoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4069 &#8211; Tivoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A three-day conference trip with Active Solution. Half of today was travel, and half was sightseeing in Tivoli, outside of Rome. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m getting paid to do this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First: lunch, at a very picturesque restaurant in the middle of Tivoli, under a pergola of wisteria. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The restaurant was established sometime in the 18th century and has seen many illustrious guests throughout the years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_6.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; including not one but two visits from Swedish royalty. In 1918, the queen of Sweden was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria_of_Baden\">Victoria of Baden<\/a>. Wikipedia tells me she was sickly, not on good terms with her husband the King of Sweden, and lived the last ten years of her life in Rome.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look left and you see Roman ruins; look right and you see Renaissance buildings. I wonder what it might feel like to live in a place so steeped in ancient history.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The restaurant was called Sibylla. Tivoli\/Tibur was the seat of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiburtine_Sibyl\">sibyl<\/a>, a prophetess of ancient Greece.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_9.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_7.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lunch was followed by a brief visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Villa_Gregoriana\">Villa Gregoriana<\/a>, a park centred at the river ravine in the middle of the town. Our time there was so short that I don&#8217;t quite understand why we even went there &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t enough to get a real impression of anything.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_8.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we went to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Villa_d%27Este\">Villa d&#8217;Este<\/a>, where we actually had a good solid hour to walk around.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_19.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Villa d&#8217;Este is a Renaissance &#8220;villa&#8221; (read: palace) of Cardinal Ippolito II d&#8217;Este. It started out as a monastery, and some of the serene simplicity of that background is still present.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_10.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_11.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inside, of course, it&#8217;s all opulent frescoes and tapestries. No luxurious furniture, though: later generations were unable to bear the cost of maintaining the palace, and its contents were sold and\/or looted, while the palace itself fell into disrepair.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_12.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_13.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Behind the villa, there&#8217;s a large garden. Whole city quarters were razed to make space for it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_14.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The main highlights of the gardens are its numerous fountains, pools, waterfalls and other water features. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_15.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_16.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_17.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4069_Tivoli_18.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-day conference trip with Active Solution. Half of today was travel, and half was sightseeing in Tivoli, outside of Rome. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m getting paid to do this. First: lunch, at a very picturesque restaurant in the middle of Tivoli, under a pergola of wisteria. The restaurant was established sometime in the 18th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22294"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22309,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294\/revisions\/22309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}