Splendurs of Augustus
For the first time, the House of the Roman emperor Augustus on Rome’s Palatine Hill is now open to the public. The four surviving rooms of what was originally a two-storied house that once looked out over extensive gardens are a dining-room, a bedroom, a spacious entrance hall and a study. The brightly coloured frescoes that decorated the walls have been carefully repaired and reconstructed by a team of experts and are considered to be among the most magnificent surviving examples of Roman wall paintings.
The house was first discovered some thirty years ago, under the ruins of the vast palace that Augustus subsequently built for himself when he became emperor.
Entrance to the house is included in a new single ticket that covers visits to the Roman Forums, the Palatine Hill and the Colosseum but expect to find long queues, as only five people at a time are allowed access to the house itself, due to the small size of the rooms and the fragile state of the frescoes.
(12/03/2008 – Margareth Stenhouse)
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