Grande Cascata Tivoli Italy
by Joan Carroll
Title
Grande Cascata Tivoli Italy
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
I was on the train from Rome Italy to Tivoli with the thought that I was going to try to visit Villa Adriana, a complex of classical buildings created in the 2nd century CE by the Roman Emperor Hadrian. I was gazing out the train window…when what to my wondering eyes should appear….but a giant waterfall! I thought “Now what is THAT?” And then “I must find it!” Turns out the buses didn’t run very frequently or conveniently on a Sunday to Villa Adriana so I turned my attention to the tourist map and to Villa Gregoriana where there was a big waterfall, presumably the one I saw from the train. There was a big line up to get in at 10 am, handing out of paper slips with numbers on them (I have no idea what they were for but maybe it got me in sooner so I took one, I was #35), two obligatory mini-lectures about who-knows-what in Italian, and then….I wasn’t sure if we were supposed to wait for a tour or if we could go off on our own. I edged away waiting to be called back…and then kept on walking. So far so good! I followed signs to the Grande Cascata. To get to one of the lookouts at the Grande Cascata, we were warned that the path was rough….92 steps worth of hard going. I thought, How hard could it be? I work out, don’t I? Well, even in my Dansko shoes, I arrived at the overlook thinking “where was the hard part?” Luckily, it probably dissuaded some others because I had the overlook to myself for about 15 minutes. Naturally I had left the tripod back at my lodgings thinking to give my back a rest for the day. So I had to contort myself a bit to balance my camera on a railing to keep it steady for a long-ish exposure shot. All the while saying ‘wow…just wow’. Eventually the spell was broken but it was a glorious few minutes. This history: In 1832 Pope Gregory XVI promoted a grandiose work of hydraulic engineering to contain the continuous flooding of the Aniene, channeling its waters into a double tunnel dug into Mount Catillo and then artificially swelling them giving rise to the 120 meter jump of the new Grande Cascata, second in Italy after Marmore. Once the work was completed, the Pope created the Park that bears his name and that for over a century was the destination of artists, writers and men of culture who told the world of its beauty. And now…I had to look up Cascata delle Marmore! Look it up for yourself and tell me if you don’t give out a WOW!
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Joan carroll, waterfall, waterfalls, cascade, park, river, garden, landscape, villa, attraction, historic, italian, scene, scenic, roman, tourism
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April 3rd, 2019
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