The Villa Celimontana is a villa on the Caelian Hill in Rome, best known for its gardens. Its grounds cover most of the valley between the Aventine Hill and the Caelian.
Entrance, photographed from inside the park
The Herm of Socrates and Seneca, found in the Villa's grounds (Pergamonmuseum)
Villa Celimontana from the south
View of the gardens of the Villa Mattei, print by Jean-Claude Richard from a painting by Hubert Robert, 1761
The Caelian Hill is one of the famous seven hills of Rome.
The Caelian Hill seen from the Aventine Hill.
Detail of a facsimile of a fresco in the François Tomb at Vulci. Caelius Vibenna is the far left. 4th century BC
This basanite statue of Agrippina the Younger as a priestess of the divine Claudius, 54–59 AD, was discovered on the Caelian Hill in 1885.