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Villa d'Este (Tivoli)
A Renaissance cardinal's villa near Rome with one of the finest Italian gardens, featuring hundreds of elaborate fountains and water features.
32 km · about 35 min drive
Lazio, Italy · Europe
Piglio sits on the route: 5 minutes from La Forma, 51km from Appian Way.
Piglio is a town located in Lazio, Italy. With a population of 3,399, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Piglio sits in Italy, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Rome time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Piglio to your route.
The Villa of Trajan was a palatial summer residence and hunting lodge of the ancient Roman Emperor Trajan (r. 98-117 AD), dating from the beginning of his reign. Its location, near the modern village of Arcinazzo, was, like many patrician villas, carefully chosen on high plateau at the foot of Monte Altuino (1271 m)Read more
and in a splendid wooded landscape to escape the summer heat of Rome. It is 2 km from the river Aniene which supplied Rome with water and on which Nero's villa at Subiaco is located about 12 km downstream. It occupies an area of about 5 hectares, much of which has yet to be excavated. Many fine room decorations have been recovered here, despite the mass robbing of expensive marbles in previous centuries.
Pliny the Younger, in a laudatory oration delivered in 100 AD in Trajan's honour, described the surrounding landscape of the villa and speaks of his interests, especially fishing and hunting there:
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Piglio is located in Lazio, Italy, Europe. The coordinates are 41.8301 latitude, 13.1333 longitude.
Piglio has a population of approximately 3,399 people, making it a town in Italy.
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A Renaissance cardinal's villa near Rome with one of the finest Italian gardens, featuring hundreds of elaborate fountains and water features.
32 km · about 35 min drive
ancient ruins
The vast ruined country retreat of Emperor Hadrian, a sprawling complex of pools, baths and pavilions.
32 km · about 35 min drive
famous road
One of the earliest and most important Roman roads, stretching from Rome to Brindisi and still lined with ancient tombs and ruins.
51 km · about 60 min drive
ancient ruins
The sprawling ruins of the political and social heart of ancient Rome, once the center of the most powerful empire in the Western world.
54 km · about 60 min drive
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Ancient Roman amphitheatre built in 80 AD that once held 50,000 spectators for gladiatorial contests.
54 km · about 60 min drive
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Rome's largest and most famous baroque fountain where visitors toss coins to ensure their return to the Eternal City.
54 km · about 65 min drive
museum
An intimate villa museum with breathtaking Bernini sculptures and masterpieces by Caravaggio, Raphael, and Titian.
54 km · about 60 min drive
ancient ruins
A perfectly preserved 2,000-year-old Roman temple with the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome and its iconic oculus.
55 km · about 65 min drive
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