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TIVOLI.
Parvum parva decent. Mihi jam non regia Roma
Sed vacuum Tibur placet.
Horace.
Tivoli, the Richmond of Rome, is situated about
eighteen miles distant from that city. It is the Tibur
of the ancients, and was considered, from the number of
villas by which the road to it was lined, as a sort of
suburb of Rome. Those edifices have now disappeared,
and the road lies through pasture lands, occasionally ex-
hibiting the ruins of the aqueducts which formerly con-
veyed the waters of the Anio to the city. It also dis-
played, some years since, the unsightly spectacle of the
limbs of mangled malefactors who had been executed
for the numerous robberies committed in the neighbour-
hood of Tivoli, which was long remarkable for such out-
rages. Before arriving at Tivoli the traveller twice
crosses the Teverone or Anio over the two bridges, the
Ponte Mamolo and the Ponte Lucano. Near the latter
stands the circular monument of the Plautia family, a
structure resembling in plan the Moles Hadriani. It is
a picturesque object, and has been frequently repre-
sented by landscape painters.
The town of Tivoli is situated upon a mountain, form-
ing part of the range of the Apennines. The rocks of
which this mountain is partially composed owe their
origin to the calcareous deposit of the waters of the
Parvum parva decent. Mihi jam non regia Roma
Sed vacuum Tibur placet.
Horace.
Tivoli, the Richmond of Rome, is situated about
eighteen miles distant from that city. It is the Tibur
of the ancients, and was considered, from the number of
villas by which the road to it was lined, as a sort of
suburb of Rome. Those edifices have now disappeared,
and the road lies through pasture lands, occasionally ex-
hibiting the ruins of the aqueducts which formerly con-
veyed the waters of the Anio to the city. It also dis-
played, some years since, the unsightly spectacle of the
limbs of mangled malefactors who had been executed
for the numerous robberies committed in the neighbour-
hood of Tivoli, which was long remarkable for such out-
rages. Before arriving at Tivoli the traveller twice
crosses the Teverone or Anio over the two bridges, the
Ponte Mamolo and the Ponte Lucano. Near the latter
stands the circular monument of the Plautia family, a
structure resembling in plan the Moles Hadriani. It is
a picturesque object, and has been frequently repre-
sented by landscape painters.
The town of Tivoli is situated upon a mountain, form-
ing part of the range of the Apennines. The rocks of
which this mountain is partially composed owe their
origin to the calcareous deposit of the waters of the