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A visitor who tours Italy can make a wonderful itinerary with careful planning. Artists have flocked to Italy for centuries and art lovers will be rewarded by the wonderful feeling of walking into a painting again and again.

If you are staying in Rome, consider booking a hotel in the neighborhood near the centrally-located Termini, which is a hub for the trains serving the airport as well as most subway and bus routes. It’s easy to orient yourself because no matter where you go in Rome, most transit routes intersect through the Termini station.

Hadrian’s Villa (Villa Adriana) and Villa d’Este in Tivoli are examples of day trip destinations just outside of Rome which are easy to get to by bus. Thanks to UNESCO World Heritage funding these sites are beautifully maintained and will remain in the world’s cultural patrimony for generations to come.

The Villa d’Este is a Renaissance villa originally commissioned as a summer residence by the son of Lucrezia Borgia. The main reason to visit is to see the the gardens, which are built on multiple levels with dozens of ingenious water features. Even in the twenty-first century, the fountains provide relief from Roman summer heat. Several fountains were engineered with pipe organs which after five centuries continue to tweet with birdsong or produce music on the hour.

Down the hill from the Villa d’Este, the Villa Adriana is a huge 250-acre complex. Originally created as a summer residence two millenia ago, Emperor Hadrian eventually made his Villa the permanent seat of his Imperial government, conducting the business of the Roman Empire from there.

Roman residents are justly proud of their history and anyone who tours Italy, even during the high tourist season, will find most locals are willing to help tourists do as the Romans do.

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