Hadrian's Villa--page 2 (of nine pages): areas of or near the Imperial Palace

Included on this site are the following areas of the villa: page 1: the Pecile and the Heliocaminus Bath page 2: areas of or near the Imperial Palace, including the Building with Doric Pillars page 3: Maritime Theater page 4: Philosophers' Chamber and Greek and Roman Libraries page 5: Piazza d'Oro page 6: Building with Fishpond and Large Baths page 7: Praetorium, Small Baths and Vestibule, Nymphaeum with three Exedra page 8: the Canopus page 9: the Serapeum and the Temple of Venus
Imperial Palace
		Caserma dei Vigili (Firemen's Headquarters)
Triclinio Estivo
		Building with Doric Pillars This building was part of the imperial palace, built on the site of an earlier Republican villa. Courtyards and gardens are interspersed with buildings. Note the additional bases on the ground identifying the portico of this structure. Behind this corner is a corridor (see below) leading to the Summer Triclinium, the Building with the Fishpond and the Piazza d'Oro.
Grooved pillars and Doric trabeation consisting of triglyphs and metopes--partially reconstructed Instead of sculptural reliefs, the metopes here have rosettes, in the Hellenistic tradition, along with other Hellenistic variations (triangular or teeth shapes) under the triglyphs.
		Corridor leading to the Piazza d'Oro Underground halls, service facilities, and storage areas were located underneath much of the complex. Presumably servants and those needed to keep this huge villa operative used these underground passageways.

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