Excursion to Tivoli to see the disastrous flooding of the river Aniene, destroyed embankments and vanished artificial waterfalls. Participants: Danes in Rome, among them Thorvaldsen, Børge Thorlacius, N.C.L. Abrahams, Johann Martin von Wagner, and others.

Primary sources

• N.C.L. Abrahams: Meddelelser af mit Liv, Copenhagen 1876, p. 322 (writes that the company consisted of “three full carriages”).

Other references

• World Heritage: The Aniene valley and Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli (the flooding took place 16.11.1826, the rebuilding of tunnels and embankment 1832-35).

Last updated 07.01.2019