Editing Tivoli, Lazio (section)

==Main sights==

[[File:Theatre of Hercules Victor.jpg|thumb|250px|Theatre of Hercules Victor]]
[[File:Tivoli s Ercole - il fantasma del tempio sorveglia la pianura P1120656.jpg|250px|thumb|Temple of Hercules Victor]]
[[File:Tempio della Tosse 6.JPG|thumb|Upper part of the Temple of the Tosse]]
[[File:Tivoli - Duomo, abside della basilica del Foro P1120799.jpg|thumb|250px|Apse of the Roman basilica of the Forum]]

===Archaeological sites===
{{see also|Hadrian's villa}}
{{Main|Sanctuary of Hercules Victor (Tivoli)}}

* Sanctuary of Hercules Victor (second century BC) was one of the largest structures in central Italy at the time, and was located outside the ancient city, across the road leading to Rome and [[Samnium]]. Measuring {{convert|188|by|140|m|ft}}, it included a theatre, a large porticoed square and the temple. It was reached through a series of terraces, in a similar fashion to the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia in [[Palestrina]]. The sanctuary also housed one of the more frequented council of musicians in Roman Italy;
* Roman [[amphitheatre]] of Blaesus of first half of the second century AD, coincided with the construction of Hadrian's monumental villa not far away. It held about 6,000 spectators. An inscription (CIL XIV, 4259) gives the benefactor, M. Tullius Blaesus;
* [[Cryptoporticus]] (below Piazza Tani);
* Mensa Ponderaria and Sacello di Augusto;
* Roman age bridge (Viale Roma);
* [[Ponte Lucano]] and Plauzi Mausoleum;
* Porta Maior (Via del Colle);
* [[San Pietro alla Carità]] Romanesque architecture Catholic Church of Tivoli, Lazio;
* Circular [[Temple of Vesta, Tivoli|Temple of Vesta]] on the acropolis, (probably of the Sibyl);
* Rectangular Temple of "[[Tiburtine Sibyl]]" (probably of Tiburno). It was built in the second century BC on an artificial platform in the acropolis. Characterized by [[Ionic order|Ionic columns]] (only two of which remain today), it measures {{convert|15.90|by|9.15|m|ft}}. The interior was decorated by frescoes and stuccoes, now lost;
* Tomb of the [[Vestal Virgin]] Cossinia;<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tibursuperbum.it/eng/monumenti/VestaleCossinia.htm | title=Tivoli - Tomb of the Vestal Virgin Cossinia }}</ref>
* [[Hadrian's Villa]], Unesco World Heritage;
* Villa of the [[Pisoni]];
* Villa known as of [[Brutus]]; 1km south of Tivoli centre on the road to San Gregorio are the remains of this large terraced late Republican villa supported by double [[cryptoporticus|cryptoportici]] around a central area of several spacious rooms. Many fountains were used in the design;
* Villa known as of [[Cassia gens|Cassius]];
* Villa of Manlius Vopiscus (Villa Gregoriana);
* Villa of [[Quintilius Varus]];
* Roman so-called Temple della Tosse, located on the ancient via Tiburtina near the Temple of Hercules and the Villa d'Este. It is a circular structure with a hole in the {{convert|12|m|ft|adj=on}} diameter dome. From the discovery of a plaque it seems that the building was built in the first half of the fourth century during the reign of Constantine I, on the ruins of a Roman villa of the first century BC, to commemorate the works carried out on the Via Tiburtina. Several hypotheses have been advanced, including that it was a [[nymphaeum]], a temple dedicated to Venus or the Sun or a tomb of the gens Tuscia, from which the current name would later derive. The dome is similar to that of the Pantheon (i.e. with an oculus). The central brick body is divided into two levels, one older on which the entrances were located, the other above on which there are three large rectangular niches and four semicircular niches. In ancient times it was covered with marble, as evidenced by the fixing holes. It rests on a base of ''[[opus reticulatum]]'' of the villa from the 1st century BC and of reused material from ancient buildings;
* Roman [[basilica]] of the [[forum (Roman)|forum]] in the cathedral.

===Other sites===

* [[Villa d'Este]], part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site list since 2001;
* [[Villa Gregoriana]];
* ''Rocca Pia'', a fortress built by Pope [[Pius II]] in 1461 to counter the urban strife between the [[Colonna family|Colonna]] and [[Orsini family|Orsini]] families;
* [[Tivoli Cathedral]] (Duomo, rebuilt from 1635 to 1641).