Park of the Caffarella
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The Caffarella Park is a large park in Rome, Italy, protected from development. It is part of the Parco Regionale Appia Antica. The park is contained in the Caffarella Valley and is bordered on its no
"Tomb of Annia Regilla"
View in Caffarella Park--The Sacred Woods
The Valca Tower
The old Casale della Vaccareccia
Appia Annia Regilla
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Appia Annia Regilla, full name Appia Annia Regilla Atilia Caucidia Tertulla, was a wealthy, aristocratic and influential Roman woman, who was a distant relative of several Roman emperors and empresses
Park of the Caffarella
…much of the area was occupied by a large estate known as the Triopius. Herodes Atticus was a Greek who became a Roman senator. Through his marriage to Annia Regilla, he acquired the land of the estate that stretched from the Caffarella Park to the Appian Way. Two ruins in the park date from that time: the tomb of…
The Nymphaeum of Herodes Atticus and Regilla in Olympia, Greece
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus built in memory of his wife at the Acropolis in Athens
The tomb in an engraving by Piranesi