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ITALIAN GARDENS:
VILLA GREGORIANA
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Villa Gregoriana is named
after Pope Gregory XVI,
who inaugurated it on October 7, 1835. The park,
located in scenic location
at the foot of the Roman
acropolis of Tivoli, is part
of the Italian natural, historical and archaeological
heritage, an environment
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Villa of the Roman consul
Manlio Vopiscus, and over
the Acropolis you can visit
the temples of Vesta and
Tiburno, from the second
Through the lush natu- century BC.
re, numerous finds of different genres and eras In 2002 Villa Gregoriana
emerge; among them was granted to FAI (Fonstand the remains of the do Ambiente Italiano) for
in which coexist natural
and artificial waterfalls, ravines, gorges and walks in
vegetation.