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Palaces, Villas & Baths in Italy

Italy's palaces and villas show the private luxury of imperial Rome: emperors' retreats, seaside villas of the very rich and the vast baths that served as palaces for the people.

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Baths of Caracalla

Rome, Italy

The Baths of Caracalla are the ruins of the huge public baths opened in Rome in AD 216, covering about 15 hectares…

16 tickets & tours

Villa Oplontis

Torre Annunziata, Italy

Villa Oplontis, also known as the Villa of Poppaea, is a vast Roman seaside villa in Torre Annunziata, buried by…

9 tickets & tours

Domus Aurea

Rome, Italy

The Domus Aurea is the Golden House that Nero built on the Oppian Hill after the fire of AD 64, now a maze of vaulted…

6 tickets & tours

Baths of Diocletian

Rome, Italy

The Baths of Diocletian in Rome, built between AD 298 and 306, were the largest public baths of the ancient city,…

1 ticket or tour

Pausilypon

Naples, Italy

Pausilypon is the Roman seaside villa of Publius Vedius Pollio on the Posillipo headland of Naples, reached through the…

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Villa Romana del Casale

Piazza Armerina, Italy

The Villa Romana del Casale, near Piazza Armerina in central Sicily, is a grand country residence of the early 4th…

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Grottoes of Catullus

Sirmione, Italy

The Grottoes of Catullus are the ruins of a vast Roman villa at the tip of the Sirmione peninsula on Lake Garda, built…

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The Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armerina holds the finest Roman floor mosaics still in place; Villa Oplontis at Torre Annunziata keeps superb wall paintings; Hadrian's Villa below Tivoli spreads over some 40 hectares, with the Canopus pool and the Maritime Theatre; in Rome the Baths of Caracalla still rise more than 30 metres, and Nero's Domus Aurea is seen only with small guided groups. Book the Domus Aurea well ahead, as its slots sell out.

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