ArchaeoWalks » Augustus https://www.archaeowalks.com Archaeological Walks in Rome © Flavia Vittucci 2012-2024 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:23:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.37 VILLA DI LIVIA https://www.archaeowalks.com/just-outside-rome/villa-di-livia/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.archaeowalks.com/just-outside-rome/villa-di-livia/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:04:18 +0000 https://www.archaeowalks.com/?page_id=1067 This is the famous suburban villa “ad Gallinas Albas” built for Livia Drusilla, Octavian Augustus’ wife.  The world known statue of Augustus Prima Porta (now at the Vatican) was found here. It consists of a large complex, where we will walk on an ancient Roman road, through the frescoed rooms and on the mosaic and marble floors of an imperial villa. We will also descend to the subterranean triclinium where the magnificent painted garden used to be (now on display at Palazzo Massimo).

Duration: 3 hours

Free admission.

Open  Thursdays and Fridays only in the morning, first, third and fifth Saturday of the month in the morning, and first, third and fifth Sunday of the month all day.

Comfortable shoes, a bottle of water, a snack, hat and sunscreen in the Summer.

Train from Piazzale Flaminio (Ferrovie Roma Nord), get off at Prima Porta. Travel time 16 minutes, cost  1.50 euro each way.

Fresco Ancient road Mosaic mat Fresco fragment, Antiquarium Capital Subterranean triclinium Collapsed wall Fresco Fresco Fresco Fresco fragment, Antiquarium Collapsed wall Rooms Thermae Fresco Fresco Tower Opus sectile Mosaic floor ]]> https://www.archaeowalks.com/just-outside-rome/villa-di-livia/feed/ 0 AUGUSTUS AND THE CAMPUS MARTIUS https://www.archaeowalks.com/archaeowalks/augustus-and-the-campus-martius/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed https://www.archaeowalks.com/archaeowalks/augustus-and-the-campus-martius/#comments Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:57:50 +0000 https://www.archaeowalks.com/?page_id=1012 This walk is focused on emperor Octavian Augustus (63 BC-14AD) and his impact on the area of Rome called Campus Martius. We will see a highly symbolic complex of monuments, that were all connected and all made to build consensus around the first emperor.

We start from Ara Pacis, the most celebrated altar dedicated by Octavian Augustus in 9 B.C., now housed in a modern museum designed by architect Richard Meier.

Right next is the Mausoleum of Augustus, which is now open to the public.

We continue on through the heart of  Campus Martius to reach the front of the House of Deputies to see the obelisk, which used to be the gnomon of an impressive sundial made under Augustus, the Horologium Augusti.

End the walk at the Pantheon, the most incredible building of all times.  Its first version was built under Augustus as part of the complex.

Duration: 3 hours

Entrance tickets to Ara Pacis: 13 euro; 11 euro age 6- 25; free under 6; more if there are temporary exhibitions. Entrance tickets to Mausoleum: 6 euro; 5 euro age 6-25, reservation needed.

Ara pacis now open 7/7 9:30am-7:30pm. For a virtual tour of Ara Pacis click here. Ara Pacis Ara Pacis Ara Pacis Mausoleum of emperor Octavian Augustus Ara Pacis Octavian Augustus and family Ara Pacis Ara Pacis Fragments from Ara Pacis Ara Pacis Ara Pacis Ara Pacis Ara Pacis Ara Pacis Ara Pacis

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