Sunday picture - Villa Jovis, Capri


Villa Jovis, Tiberius’s palace on Capri, completed in AD 27 and from where he then ruled  until his death in AD 37.

The entire complex spanned several terraces with a difference in elevation of about 40 metres and covered 7,000 m² (1.7 acres).

Reconstructions by Carl Weichardt (1846-1906), German architectDas Schloß des Tiberius und andere Römerbauten auf Capri 

View from the east showing the rock from which Tiberius had enemies thrown.

 

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