One place I'd love to return to is the small town of Tivoli, about an hour's bus ride from Rome. The only time I've been there was on my birthday in 1997. We took the metro to the Tiburtina stop, then caught a bus out to Tivoli, but didn't exactly know where to get off the bus, or where to go once we did, or even what sites we were going there to see. I guess we figured that the sites would be obvious when we arrived.Instead, we wandered around the main street for awhile until we'd stumbled into the Villa d'Este, an enormous villa with gardens and fountains that seem to go on forever.
It was amazing to see. I'll have to scan in more pictures of the fountains; some shoot hundreds of feet into the air. And, when you consider that they're nearly 500 years old, it's pretty impressive that they still function.
After walking through the gardens we found a little place to eat, then walked around a little more. We eventually came upon an overlook where we could see a beautiful waterfall.
Between the water and the rocks and the green, green vegetation around it, not to mention the rainbows in the spray coming up from the light blue pool at the bottom, it was a sight that even now begs me to come back and see it again.
