Tivoli, Lazio
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Tivoli is a town and comune in Lazio, Central Italy, 30 kilometres north-east of the city centre of Rome, at the falls of the Aniene river where it issues from the Sabine Hills. The city offers a wide
Left from top: Villa d'Este Fountain, Rocca Pia, View of Villa d'Este, Temple of Vesta, Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli Cathedral
Detail from the Villa Gregoriana
The castle of Rocca Pia, built in 1461 by Pope Pius II, and the Roman amphitheatre
View of the World Heritage park of Villa d'Este in Tivoli
Antinous
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Antinous, also called Antinoös, was a Greek youth from Bithynia, a favourite and lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Had
Tivoli, Lazio
…Denmark) and the Park Tivoli (Utrecht). The Wörlitz Synagogue in the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm (Germany) is a replica of the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli. Antinous (born 111), Lover of Hadrian Emilio Segrè (born 1905), Italian-American physicist and Nobel laureate…
Bust of Antinous-Dionysus (Hermitage Museum)
Head of Antinous found at Hadrian's Villa, dating from A.D. 130–138 , now at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
British Museum busts of Hadrian (left) and Antinous (right), both part of the Townley Marbles
The tondo at left depicting Hadrian's lion hunt, accompanied by Antinous, on the Arch of Constantine in Rome