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More than 2,000 years ago, extremely wealthy Romans lived on the sunny shores of the Bay of Naples at Pompeii and in opulent villas nearby, unconcerned about Mount Vesuvius in the distance. Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE), Augustus (r. 27 BCE...

Hadrian’s Villa near Tivoli, Italy, is an opulent, sprawling garden-villa covering some 120 hectares (296 acres). It was built by Emperor Hadrian (76-138 CE) between 125-134 CE for use as his country estate, although the land may have originally...

The Moselle Valley is Germany's oldest winegrowing region. The Romans brought viticulture to this area and planted vines along the Moselle River 2000 years ago. After settling the region c. 50 BCE and establishing the city of Trier (Augusta...

The Maritime Theatre at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) was a complex with 35 room built on a circular island surrounded by a moat. It is generally thought to have been dedicated to Hadrian’s personal use.

The vigilant's station is a multi-level structure in Hadrian's Villa in Tivoly (Italy). It is referred to as "service buildings", and it is often associated with the vigilants or guards who protected the villa.

Monumental bust of the goddess Isis-Sothis-Demeter, from the Palestra at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy), 131-138 CE. Now in the Vatican Museums, Rome.

One of the most striking and best preserved parts of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (Italy) consists of a pool named Canopus and the so-called Serapeum, a monumental summer cenatio with a nymphaeum set at the southern end of the Canopus.

The Hospitalia at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy) was a two-story building with 10 guest rooms on the first floor off a long and wide central hallway, at the southern end of which was a hall. The structure dates to the first phase (118-125...

View of one of the gardens of the Three Exedras building at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy). The building was a semicircular arcaded triclinium (dining room) with a large, rectangular fountain located to the north of the structure at the...

The Piazza d’Oro (Golden Hall) is a vast building with a quadriporticus garden and water basins located in the northern edge of Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli (Italy). The southern side of Piazza d’Oro has a cenatio (dining-room) and perhaps also...