Hadrian’s Villa

After Tivoli Gardens we headed to Hadrian's Villa. We had seen a garden at that site on a documentary on Italian Gardens that had been reconstructed and Tara recalled some thing about the site from art history courses.

It wasn't the main reason for heading out toward Tivoli. It should have been. It is an amazing site. There are some exquisite ruins. Having seen Domus Aurea the prior day and with the quality of these ruins, you could really feel the what the site would have felt like when in use. It is rather huge. Nice design. Hadrian traveled the empire extensively, and especially loved Classical Greek art and architecture. The structure with the circular moat was just breathtaking.

Must see if you go to Rome. The site gives great order to an ancient ruin, which is hard to experience in Rome itself with layers of ruins. Just a lovely place with amazing content.