Roman buildings at the The Villa of the Quintilii (Italian: Villa dei Quintili) with summer poppies.
Roman buildings at the The Villa of the Quintilii (Italian: Villa dei Quintili) with summer poppies. This is an ancient site on the Via Appia Antica just outside the traditional boundaries of Rome. It was built by the wealthy brothers Sextus Quintilius Maximus and Sextus Quintilius Condianus in the 2nd century The ruins of this villa suburbana and all its associated buildings are of such an extent that when they were first excavated, the site was called Roma Vecchia ("Old Rome") by the locals, as they occupied too great a ground, it seemed, to have been anything less than a town. Many of the buildings were constructed at the time of Emperor Hadrian and the villa included extensive thermae or warm water pipes fed by its own aqueduct, and also a hippodrome, which dates to the fourth century, when the villa was Imperial property. The emperor Commodus coveted the villa strongly enough to put to death its owners in 182 and confiscate it for his own use.
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Location: The Villa of the Quintilii (Italian: Villa dei Quintili), Via Appia, Rome, Italy
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