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Villa dei Quintili
00178 Roma, via Appia Antica 290 Phone: ☎ 06 39967700About
The wealthy, cultured and militarily gifted Quintili brothers - consuls under Emperor Marcus Aurelius - built this splendid villa with a large bath complex and nymphaeum before Emperor Commodus became jealous and had them killed. He then took over the villa for himself, and essentially ruled from here.Digs in the 18th and 19th centuries unearthed statuary and objects now in the Vatican Muse...more