Villa of the Quintilii
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The Villa of the Quintilii (Italian: Villa dei Quintili) is a monumental ancient Roman villa situated beyond the fifth milestone along the Via Appia Antica just outside the traditional boundaries of Rome, Italy. It was first built by the rich and cultured Quintilii brothers Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus and Sextus Quintilius Condianus (consuls in 151 AD).
The ruins of this villa suburbana are of such an extent that when they were first excavated, the site was called Roma Vecchia ("Old Rome") by the locals, as they occupied too great a ground, it seemed, to have been anything less than a town. The villa included extensive thermae fed by its own aqueduct and, what was even more unusual, a garden-hippodrome, which dates to the fourth century, when the villa was Imperial property.
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