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Tivoli's UNESCO Heritage: Half-Day Tour of Hadrian's Villa and Villa d'Este from Rome
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Discover the UNESCO-listed Hadrian’s Villa and Villa d’Este on a half-day tour from Rome. Explore ancient ruins, stunning gardens, and magnificent fountains with an expert guide.
Discover the UNESCO-listed Hadrian’s Villa and Villa d’Este on a half-day tour from Rome. Explore ancient ruins, stunning gardens, and magnificent fountains with an expert guide.
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Villa d’Este - First stop here is Hadrian’s Villa (Villa Adriana), the former holiday home of Emperor Hadrian – built in the 2nd century AD. More akin to a small village than a home in today’s sense of the word, the ostentatious villa ruins are incredible to visit, with ruins of thermal baths, temples, palaces, and theaters just waiting to be…
- Villa d’Este - First stop here is Hadrian’s Villa (Villa Adriana), the former holiday home of Emperor Hadrian – built in the 2nd century AD. More akin to a small village than a home in today’s sense of the word, the ostentatious villa ruins are incredible to visit, with ruins of thermal baths, temples, palaces, and theaters just waiting to be explored. Head into the site with your guide, and learn about the emperor’s ancient travels – reportedly the inspiration for many of the monuments – while walking around.
- Villa Adriana - After your tour of Hadrian’s Villa, return to your coach and travel the short distance to Tivoli’s other showstopping villa – the magnificent Villa d’Este. Built in the heart of the Renaissance – around 1550 – for Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este, Tivoli’s governor, Villa d’Este was a contentious building that upset the local residents as they had to move to make way for it. Walk around the site with your guide, 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.
- Green Line Tours - Day Tours - Green Line Tours - the tour ends here and this will be where travelers will be dropped off
What's Included
- Local guide
- Transport by air-conditioned coach (maximum 50 people)
- Local guide
- Transport by air-conditioned coach (maximum 50 people)
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Pick up and drop-off
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Pick up and drop-off
Additional Information
Embark on a half-day journey from Rome to Tivoli, where you’ll have the opportunity to discover the two UNESCO-protected villas, Hadrian’s Villa and Villa d’Este, under the guidance of a knowledgeable guide. Keep your camera at hand to immortalize the impressive ruins, aesthetic gardens and ornate fountains as you deepen your understanding of the lavish…
Embark on a half-day journey from Rome to Tivoli, where you’ll have the opportunity to discover the two UNESCO-protected villas, Hadrian’s Villa and Villa d’Este, under the guidance of a knowledgeable guide. Keep your camera at hand to immortalize the impressive ruins, aesthetic gardens and ornate fountains as you deepen your understanding of the lavish predilections of the emperors and cardinals who previously resided here.
- Please note: This is a Multilingual Tour
- Tour is suitable for wheelchair users provided passenger is traveling with a companion who can assist them on and off the bus. Wheelchairs will be stored in the luggage area of the bus.
- Minimum numbers apply. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there are not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative or full refund.
- Total duration includes travel time.
Location
Via Giovanni Amendola, 32
Via Giovanni Amendola
via Giovanni Amendola 32 10 15 minutes before tour departure
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(805 Ratings)
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Anastas_m
Oct 24, 2023
Highlight from our trip to Rome - This was the best experience from the whole trip to Rome. Getting away from the busy streets of the city into the calmness of the Adrian Villa and the beautiful waterscape of the Vila d'Este was amazing.
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David_n
Oct 10, 2023
Brilliant - Fabulous, fabulous and more fabulous. The tour was really well organised and the sights you see at both locations are breathtakingly different.
Not to be missed Tour.
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Alisa_p
May 7, 2023
Bellisimo!!! - Well worth it, even in the light rain 🌧 The driver was great and the host was fantastic and funny. He single-handedly may have convinced me to drop everything and move there 🇮🇹 Learned alot about the site and enjoyed all of the little nuances and secrets it held. Lots of walking but if the 80+ host could do it, so can you 😉
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Michael_w
Sep 5, 2022
Wonderful time with a... - Wonderful time with a knowledgeable and friendly guide. Everything ran on time and as promised. Would recommend.
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Lynn_w
May 16, 2022
Beautiful history - This was a great exploration of Ancient Rome. Having been to Rome on three separate vacations, I needed to find new adventures. This one did not disappoint. Our guide was informative and cheerful. We learned so much history. Be prepared to do some hiking on both villa sites, well worth the cardio. Beautiful all the way.
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Jeanette_m
Feb 28, 2020
Beautiful Gardens - Great experience very beautiful gardens great way to get away from the city. Our guide was very informative we enjoyed the trip.
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Lindajk176ug
Dec 1, 2019
Don't miss this one - Villa d'Este is a magnificent garden unlike any other I have visited in England, France or Japan. So worth the trip. We visited in November and it took our breath away. Visiting in the summer would be a wonderful respite from Rome's heat. But no matter when you visit you will be struck by the engineering feat of the running water and the indescribable beauty.
Hadrian's Villa is amazing in another way. This emperor's structures are all over Europe. Think Hadrian's Wall in England and his arches in Turkey and Greece. But when you visit this place you get a feeling for the scope of his thinking and possibly the underlying unhappiness he may have experienced. It would be difficult to understand this ruin without a guide. Really worth the expense.
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Bichespi
Dec 14, 2019
It could be better... - Trip was good about thirty to forty minutes. Driver drove well.
Hadrian’s villa felt a bit rushed. It is huge but not all of it has been excavated. So we could have seen more.
The tour guide explained much and well. He was knowledgeable.
Villa d’este was beautiful. It is a beautiful villa. Again felt a little bit rushed.
So this tour offered a general view of the two villas. If you want more detailed tour book them separately.
One thing I did not appreciate was not under anyone’s control. I was made fun for thinking that marinara sauce was about the tomato. A snobbish fellow tourist corrected me because “as the word says it has products from the sea, Marinara seafood sauce”. It was pointed out to me that Americans don’t have culture. I did not reply.
However I asked around and I learned that marinara sauce was called so because it was given to the sailers “marinos” in Naples.
Sauce for sailers, marinara sauce. It was the flat bread with tomato sauce, I was right.
Please share this with all the tour guides. It is not pleasant to be the person without culture in the group. Especially when the uncultured person has the correct fact.
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Faraway765781
Nov 12, 2019
Very nice guide, good transport - We enjoyed our trip to Hadrians Villa, it was very insightful. We were a bit disappointed when we arrived at Villa D'Este because we could only see parts of the gardens as the rest was blocked off because they were shooting a movie so that was a bit disappointing.
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706judyj
Oct 31, 2023
The worst guide for such a lovely place. I wish I could have gotten better info, his English& Spanish was terrible - This lovely place should have had a better tour guide. Our guide arrived late The group arrived there at 730-745am and our Guide got there at 7:55am and the Green line tours office never opened. The man from the Green line finally arrived at 8:20am to get us our bus.The most discouraging problem was our guide had to speak in 4 different languages and he didnt have a mastery of any language.The infohe gave was confusing and very basic
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