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Monte Rosa skiing
Piazza del Popolo
Canal Grande
Baths of Caracalla
San Polo
Murano
Cannaregio
Castello
Venetian canals
Giudecca
Monumental Cemetery
San Giorgio Maggiore
Forum Romanum
Pigna
Castello Sforzesco
San Michele Cemetery
Torcello
Abruzzo Landscape
Cinque Terre
Fountains in Rome
Reggia Caserta
Santa Chiara
Naples Streets
Pompei and Herculaneum
Pantheon
Florence Cathedral
San Marco
Trastevere
San Paolo fuori le Mura
Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II
Santa Sabina
Colosseum
Milan Duomo
Milano Sculptures
Visited: August 2003
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Hadrian, Roman Emperor in the early 2nd century CE, was an avid traveler and preferred to stay outside Rome for his shaky relationship with the Senate. He constructed the Villa Adriana some 30 kilometres from the city. He wanted to incorporate elements of buildings he had seen on his many travels, and this is what makes the complex so special. Hadrian was not only the emperor, but also architect, and he personally designed the buildings after examples from Egypt, Greece and other countries of the Roman Empire. All in all, the Villa Adriana is nothing short of a large imperial palace.
Hadrian took great effort to preserve the buildings as they were. To accomplish this, he constructed underground tunnels for transportation, thus leaving the buildings on the ground level intact. Nowadays, it is difficult to appreciate the beauty of the Villa Adriana, since a lot of buildings lie in ruins or have simply disappeared. Thus, the complex seems to be open, you can see through buildings which in Hadrian's time were still intact. Still, walking around the complex is rewarding. You enter at the Poikile or Pecile, based on Greek Stoa Poikile or painted colonnade, with a large pool, used for banquets in Hadrian's time.
From here, you can visit the remains of the baths, the Canopus and the temple of Serapis, with copies of the Caryatides as found on the Acropolis in Athens. the famous Maritime Theatre where Hadrian is said to have retreated during depressions, the guest houses or Hospitalium with their mosaics on the floor, various temples among which the Temple of Venus. Furthermore, strolling around the complex will make you realize how many more things are still underground, and gives you a good feeling of the size of this complex.
