Tibur

Here are some remains from the roman time to see (villa, temple). In the Aniene valley are furthermore the remains of total eight aqueducts, which supplied Rome and further villas with water.

This place is known however above all because of the Hadrian villa which was named after Publius Aelius Hadrianus.

Due to the only already today known size of this construction one must speak in fact not from a villa but from a government quarter. Apart from the thermal springs - and also here the archeologists quarrel about who used these - the individual objects are classed with different purposes according to archeologist and date of the interpretation. Therefore the official designation and the most important presumed intended purposes are in the following mentioned. Antique sources mention that the emperor wanted to reproduce buildings from Greece and Egypt which impressed him. Presumably these served however only as an impulse, here an own idea should be displayed. Nevertheless it was attempted in the case of the archaeological examinations - thus presumably erroneous - to recognize the Greek or Egyptian model and to designate the building so. Furthermore it is to be noted that until today just a fifth of the construction was examined obviously.

First will be entered the poecil. A long water basin which one is surrounded from an ambulatory. That verges on the building with the three exedras. Here is a dining-room presumed in the middle. The building continuous into the so-called stadium.

To the south are the small and large thermal springs which are separated by a vestibulum. The slope retaining wall between poecil and vestibulum was used for the construction of many apartments, the cento camerelle. Presumably the service personnel were accommodated here.

A little above the big thermal springs lies the praetorium. The dark rooms were rather used however as storerooms.

To the south follows the canopus. A with columns surrounded water basin. The construction is finished by a hall that was arched over only up to the half, presumably a triclinium.

Even further in the south lies the academy, a further complex of buildings. In the west is the tower from roccabruna to see. Possibly served these astrological observations.

If one goes back to the poecil, follows the fish farming east of the stadium. Due to the equipment with a splendid mosaic also this part could have been used for other purposes. Under the pond is located a cryptoporticus.

The heliocaminus is northern. These thermal springs were named by a mistake so, the corresponding hall was heated with a hot air heating.

Here also lie the philosopher hall and the teatro marittimo. On the island in the round pond was a small villa.

The presumed center of the construction is eastern. With different places and rooms. Here are also rooms of the predecessor building - a villa from the republican time.

The courtyard of the libraries is surrounded by so-called Greek and roman libraries. It is a question however of tricliniums. In the close-fitting hospitalita were presumably accommodated the praetorians.

Further northern follows the Venus temple. In the proximity of the contemporary entry lies the Greek theater.

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