Cafe Tivoli

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Welcome to Cafe Tivoli. Feel right at home as we serve you the freshest, healthiest, homemade food available. We’re sure you’ll find our friendly staff & moderate prices a refreshing change from the usual.

Story

The Origin of Tivoli:
Tivoli, a town of Rome Province, commands the principal natural route eastward from Rome across Italy. The site has been continuously occupied since prehistoric time. Originally an independent member of the Latin League and a rival of Rome, Tivoli early passed within the Roman orbit and attained fame and prosperity as a summer resort under the early Roman Empire. Among the many remains of wealthy Roman residences of this period in the immediate neighborhood are those of one that was subsequently acquired by the Emperor Hadrian to become the nucleus of his famous VillaTivoli is an important landmark in the history of architecture and is still among the most romantically impressive monuments surviving from antiquity. Surviving Roman monuments within the town are two well preserved temples overlooking the falls and substructures of the Great Temple of Hercules Victor. Nearby are stretches of aqueducts which served Rome. In Tivoli also is the Villa d’Este, steeply terraced down the slope alongside the medieval town, which was begun in 1550 by Pirro LiGorio for Cardinal Ippolito d’Este. Its gardens, a magnificent example of Renaissance landscape architecture, are unrivaled in the wealth and fantasy of their fountains.