Today we went on a day excursion to the Villa Adriana. The Villa was built as a private summer retreat between AD 118 and 134. Villa Adriana was a vast open-air museum of the finest architecture of the Roman world. The grounds of the Imperial palace covered an area of 300 acres and were filled with full-scale reproductions of the emperor's favorite buildings from Greece and Egypt. Although excavations on the site began in the 16th century, many of the ruins lying scattered in the surrounding fields have yet to be identified with any certainty.
There is a beautiful pool of water that has a line of statues along the right side and two male statues at the head of the pool, one is a solider and the other has no head. This pool was apparently built in memory of the emperor's boyfriend who committed suicide while he was in egypt on a sacrificial table. After his boyfriend committed suicide the emperor went insane. On a lighter note I thought this was the most capturing remain of the entire Villa Adriana.
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