If art interests you, this is the right tour for you.
The dining room was used at night, so we even let you see how enchanting the complex becomes when lit by the artificial light of lamps, candelabra, and torches. Visit the emperor’s very own private dining room, and see the impressive North Hall, South Hall, the lovely North Garden with its surrounding peristyle.
Understand how the Romans cleverly designed the rooms to be airy and cool during the heat of summer. Learn about imperial audiences, the imperial court, the Praetorian Guard, what went on at the emperor’s private banquets, and the Roman elite habit of the ambulatio. Frischer explains what you are seeing and how the place was used in Hadrian’s day. As you follow your curiosity and explore the highly accurate 3D reconstruction, you can play audio tracks in which Prof. Bernard Frischer, Director of the Digital Hadrian’s Villa Project (). Along the way, you can also go up into the air to see the villa in the context of the enchanting landscape of the Tivoli area. The virtual tour takes you back in time to the 130s CE so that you can visit the site reconstructed as it appeared late in the reign of Hadrian. Instead, it consisted of structures used in warm weather to host imperial audiences, receptions, dinner parties, and ambulationes. “Stadium Garden” is the modern name for a major complex at Hadrian’s Villa that, despite what we conventionally call it, was neither a stadium nor a garden. This virtual tour presents the Stadium Garden. Some of its many major buildings are well preserved, while others have been reduced to their foundations-often invisible below the modern surface. Lavishly decorated with sculpture, gardens, and fountains of all kinds, the villa was a delight to the eye of the ancient visitor. Known today as Hadrian’s Villa, the place was a government retreat where the emperor and his court could pursue the everyday tasks of administering the vast empire while also enjoying leisure activities such as bathing, banqueting, hunting, taking recreational walks (ambulationes), attending the theater, and even watching gladiators fight in a private arena. An enthusiastic builder and patron of the arts, Hadrian developed the villa throughout his reign. This was the period when the Roman empire was at its peak in terms of culture, economic development, and military security. Hadrian ruled as emperor from 117 to 138 of our era. Take a virtual tour of the Stadium Garden at Hadrian’s Villa, the World Heritage Site located in Tivoli, Italy (30 km from Rome). Learn how the place was designed, decorated, and used. Follow an expert on a virtual tour of the Stadium Garden at Hadrian’s Villa restored to its original appearance.
0 kommentar(er)
