Where is hadrians villa

Current timeTotal duration Google Classroom Facebook Twitter. Bernie Frischer. And Bernie, you're here in the virtual world with us. You're seeing me right now. So this is really my place. I built it between and when I died in And now I've come back to earth and to life to show you around. The real reason is I loved Athens and the Athenian philosophical schools, and all philosophers wore beards.

So how long did you work on this? I started thinking, wouldn't it be good to have a government retreat, outside of Rome, but near Rome?

And one reason that I thought that was that, unfortunately, in my early days as emperor, in , I had to put three senators to death. So that always made me a little bit sheepish about being in Rome. And there are 30 major building complexes.

I was an amateur architect, and I just kept building and building. I was a bit of a maniac when it came to building. My predecessor and relative's chief architect, Apollodorus of Damascus, said some very unkind things about a building I designed in Rome, so I forced him to commit suicide. But that just shows how much I loved architecture.

There are temples. There are living quarters. There are baths. There are dining halls, indoor winter dining halls, and outdoor summer dining halls. So you really can have a good time here all year round. And it's kind of a city in miniature, Rome in miniature. We used only cut marble on the walls and on the floors. Finally, the splendid Teatro Marittimo Maritime Theatre is an island of sorts elaborated with an iconic colonnade and circumscribed by a canal.

This is where the Emperor isolated himself when he wanted to think amidst silence and tranquility. To learn more, explore the history of Hadrian's Villa.

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It had a large courtyard that was probably covered with gardens and fountains — and most likely used for banquets and other functions. It has several spaces within it, decorated with fountains, sculptures, and columns. One of the spaces is probably a dining room for hosting banquets, for example. There are two distinct parts to the space — the Great Baths and the Small Baths and, although they are quite similar, the Small Baths were more elaborately decorated, with better quality marble and more intricate designs.

In the middle of the baths is the access to the Vestibule which, despite its proximity, actually had nothing to do with the complex of pools. The Vestibule was one of the main entrances to the whole villa, used by important people arriving by horse or chariot.

It had a staircase up from the road to a courtyard with a small temple on one side and a grand hall on the other, creating a sense of luxury and statesmanship as a first impression to any visitors. The Canopus is a terraced garden that has a metre-long canal down the centre of it.

A colonnade would once have run around the edge of the canal and been decorated with impressive sculptures. It is, in many ways, a collection of all the different loves of Hadrian, combined into one picturesque landscape. Recently archaeologists found a system of tunnels underneath the whole complex — some of them large enough for chariots to pass through. An emperor-sized Villa.

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