Park Hotel Villa Potenziani Rieti

Another early day! But, it let us get to Tivoli by 10 am, so we had a full day to wander, relax, and enjoy the sites without having to rush or worry about schedules. I need to start doing more weekends like this, just decide to go somewhere with no itinerary and grab a train!
We basically just walked around the hilltop town and visited the ...

Hi travellers,

You want a bed & breakfast near Rome (40 min) and ... I'm french man who live since long time in Italy...so I offer a not so expensive place (35 euros per night per person, with breakfast). I live in a large house surrounded by olive trees in the Roman countryside, on the crest of a hill a bit in the middle of nowhere...

Today we woke up early to go on an optional excursion with our school to Tivoli, Hadrian's Villa, and Villa D’Este. All of these places are about 45 minutes outside of Rome and they are so beautiful. Hadrian’s Villa is a vast area of ruins that were begun around the year 125AD. The Villa is only partially uncovered, with about 2/3rds...

partie en train pour aller voir tivoli. Nous avons passer la journee avec notre couple d'ami canadien a visiter ce petit village dans les montgagnes a l'est de rome. ancien le lieux de retraite des gens riches de rome, il y a quelques villas a visiter dans la region, mais seulement une ouverte en periode hors saison, a meme le villae de tivoli p...

Wednesday, We are alone in an Italian villa. It was magical. We slept in and then had breakfast on the veranda.

I made a picnic lunch out of the things we bought yesterday and feeling very brave we drove to Pettino. It is a small mountain village about a half an hour away from M & J's house. Reaching Pettino, we blinked and were out...

Hadrian's Villa.. I'll let the pictures do the talking. I was simply amazed that I seeing something in the flesh that I had enjoyed studying so much at school in Classical Studies. I spent nearly five hours walking up and down that hill and I still don't think I saw everything. To think that one man called this place his "summer home"...I wish I...

The Big Day - Sept 2, 2006 Today, for the first time since I've been in Rome, I slept in. It was glorious. Kellie called me and I talked to her and Erica. When she called I was still half asleep and thought that the phone ringing meant that someone was calling me to tell me I was late for class. Wrong. It was Sunday. A happy surprise. Yesterday ...

Hello again everyone! Sorry that it has taken so long to write...we spent the weekend in Rome and then hung out with Jessica and Andy in Florence for the last couple of days, so it's been a busy week! We got to Rome at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, and had about half a day to kill before all the Silvas arrived (on two different planes, of cours...

Well, here we are down to our last day, and it has been very unique! Discovered as we were packing to go home that Ray-s backpack is missing. Inside the backpack was his passport, among other things (cell phone, some $, etc). So we spent some time at the local carabanieri reporting it. Had to speak with the American Embassy on the phone, too, to...

We had another excursion on our fourth day in Rome, this time to the ancient town of Tivoli (30 km east of Rome). There were two major villas we were scheduled to see, and both are listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites. The first place we visited was the Villa Adriana. Villa Adriana was built by the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD...