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  2. Gardens of Maecenas - Wikipedia

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    The Gardens of Maecenas, or Horti Maecenatis, constituted the luxurious ancient Roman estate of Gaius Maecenas, an Augustan-era imperial advisor and patron of the arts. The property was among the first in Italy to emulate the style of Persian gardens . [ 1 ]

  3. List of parks and gardens in Rome - Wikipedia

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    The Gardens of Lucullus (Horti Lucullani) were an ancient patrician villa on the Pincian Hill on the edge of Rome; they were laid out by Lucius Licinius Lucullus about 60 BCE. The Villa Borghese gardens still cover 17 acres (69,000 m 2) of green on the site, now in the heart of Rome, above the Spanish Steps. Gardens of Maecenas

  4. Porta Esquilina - Wikipedia

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    The Porta Esquilina allowed passage between Rome and the Esquiline Hill at the city’s east before Rome expanded with the later Aurelian Wall.The Esquiline Hill served as Rome’s graveyard during the Republic and later as an area for the horti and the emperor’s most beautiful gardens such as the Gardens of Maecenas. [3]

  5. Domus Transitoria - Wikipedia

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    Domus Transitoria/Aurea plan. The "domus" estate was intended to connect the Palatine palace with all of the imperial estates that had been acquired in various ways, including the Gardens of Maecenas, Horti Lamiani, Horti Lolliani, etc. [2]

  6. Laocoön and His Sons - Wikipedia

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    The second document, from 1527, makes it clear that there is now a house on the property, and clarifies the location; by then De Fredis was dead and his widow rented out the house. The house appears on a map of 1748, [67] and still survives as a substantial building of three storeys, as of 2014 in the courtyard of a convent. The area remained ...

  7. Horace's Villa - Wikipedia

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    Horace, in a letter to his friend Quintius, [2] describes in glowing terms the country villa which his patron, Maecenas, had given him: "It lies on a range of hills, broken by a shady valley which is so placed that the sun when rising strikes the right side, and when descending in his flying chariot, warms the left.

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  9. Category:Ancient gardens in Rome - Wikipedia

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