{"id":13824,"date":"2018-09-04T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=13824"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T01:24:39","slug":"hadrians-villa-tivoli-italy-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelandpamstravels.com\/?p=13824","title":{"rendered":"Hadrian\u2019s Villa, Italy 2018 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date:  3rd September 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travelled:  172 kilometres from Subiaco to Sutri, both in the province of Lazio, Italy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visited:  Hadrian\u2019s Villa \u20ac10pp + audio guide \u20ac5pp, Tivoli.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stayed:  Sutri municipal car-park, free. No services.  N42.24117, E12.22893<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Budget:  93  days @ \u20ac95 per day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We wake after a peaceful evening on the mountain outside the Monastery of San Benedetto.  Mind you a thunder storm circled a couple of times but nothing eventuated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather has changed, the summer heat is still there during the day, but the evenings cool quickly and Pam calls for the wooly most mornings about 5am. It\u2019s been a long hot summer in Europe.  Hopefully chasing campsites or sosta with electricity for the air-conditioner has passed for 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we have our coffee and some fruit and roll down the hill to Subiaco and on to the A24 motorway for Tivoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Italian\u2019s call it Villa Andriana, built by Emperor Hadrian as his summer residence.  Most guide books refer to it as Hadrian\u2019s Villa.  Hadrian is the roman emperor who built walls across Briton, created great viaducts in Espana, Rome and the provinces.  He built grand theatres across the empire all the way to central Turkey.  We really like Hadrian.  So it\u2019s Hadrian\u2019s Villa or town but to be more accurate it\u2019s more a mini city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once we turn off the motorway we got lucky and our GPS found a secret short cut to the Villa.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Soon the narrow street gives way to a narrow lane.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We arrive at the Villa, find a parking spot in the shade have some toast and coffee. We buy our tickets and go to the first exhibit, a model of the site.  As I said it\u2019s a huge site.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The first thing that strikes us is the size and scope of ruins.  Hadrian ordered the construction of his summer residence in 118AD it took some 26 years to complete.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Pecile, originally bordered by arched porticoes, now a home for turtles.  130m x 40m and still holds water.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Just one of several domed bath houses or thermes.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The amazing Theatre Maritime, Hadrian\u2019s private retreat.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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