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Villa Adriana’s - Hadrian’s villa - visit starts from the Pecile, a monumental four-sided portico used for the “gestatio” – the healthy walks that Roman doctors advised people to take after lunch. The visit then proceeds along the north-south axis where imposing baths, divided into large and small ones, can be admired. Further on lies the Canopo, a great rectangular basin which recalled the canal leading from Alexandria to Canopo, on the delta of the Nile. On a small hill to the west of the Canopo stand the majestic ruins of the Imperial palace built on a pre-existing republican villa. Close by is the Piazza d’Oro, a rectangular area surrounded by a double portico and enriched by a central garden. 

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VICOVARO
Società Cooperativa Lucretilus


LICENZA
Paia


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WHERE TO EAT 


TIVOLI
La Cerra
S. Clemente
Villa Luce


CICILIANO
Al Giovenzano


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  SAGNE AL SUGO - HOME MADE PASTA WITH TOMATO SAUCE

Category: first course
Difficulty: medium
Ready in: 1 hour
Season: all

Ingredients (four servings)
Home made pasta: 400g of flour, water (as needed)
Sauce: tomatoes, extra-virgin olive oil, 1 clove of garlic, ½ an onion, peperoncino (Italian small chilli), salt

Preparation
Make a mound with the flour on your work surface and scoop out a well; gradually add water until the dough is smooth and elastic. Roll out the mixture in a thin pastry and let it dry for about 30 minutes. Dust with flour and fold over, then cut into strips about 1cm wide.
While the dough is drying, place the oil, garlic, peperoncino and onion in a pan. Fry until brown, then add the peeled and squashed tomatoes and salt. Place the pasta in boiling and salty water and cook until it floats (about five minutes). Serve with a generous sprinkling of pecorino romano.

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Tivoli, a city "created" by its river, stands where the higher Aniene basin ends and forms magnificent waterfalls. However, even in its lower basin south of Tivoli, the river fascinated Emperor Hadrian with its fresh water flowing through the level countryside. In fact, he had his own villa (with his name) built here, between 118 - 128 A.D., on the slopes of the Tiburtini  Mountains and over an area of 120 hectares (today only 40 are visitable).
The emperor participated in the project of the whole complex, and gave its individual parts names of the most famous places in the provinces of the Empire: Liceo, Accademia, Canopo, Pecile, Valle di Tempe. These were not copies of the places, but free interpretations, which Hadrian used to emphasize the different identities of the Empire's provinces and which he elaborated through Greek classicism. 


Hadrian's villa's visit starts from the Pecile, a monumental four-sided portico used for the "gestatio" - the healthy walks that Roman doctors advised people to take after lunch. This is inspired by Athens' Stoà Poikile, a sort of portico-museum which displayed the works of the most prominent Greek painters.  


The visit proceeds along the north-south axis where imposing baths stand, divided into large and small ones.  Further on lies the Canopo, a great rectangular basin which recalled the canal leading from Alexandria to Canopo, on the delta of the Nile. One of the short sides of the basin ended in an exedra nymphaeum, called Serapeo (the god Serapis was worshipped in Canopo), once decorated by a beautiful statuary, now in the Vatican Museum in Rome. This area was probably dedicated to Antinoo, Hadrian's favourite who drowned in the Nile and was then deified.
On a small hill to the west of the Canopo stand the majestic ruins of the Imperial palace, built on a pre-existing republican villa. Close by is the Piazza d'Oro, a rectangular area surrounded by a double portico and enriched by a central garden. 


The part of the villa which best reflects Hadrian's character is the Maritime Theatre, probably the emperor's private study, who thus could be isolated from the rest of the world. It consisted of a small artificial island with a miniature copy of a typical Roman house, surrounded by a ring-shaped canal, and reachable via a small mobile bridge.



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