The grandest Roman villa on the island is Villa Jovis, located at the summit of the eastern promontory, the last residence of Emperor Tiberius. The excavations carried out in 1935 brought to light a vast building centered around a large central quadrilateral where cisterns are located. The palace is accessed via ramps that lead up the so-called myrtle avenue and end in a vestibule, which precedes a tetrastyle atrium with four bases of white marble, on which stood four columns of cipollino marble. The adjacent rooms served as the guardhouse. A wide corridor with a white mosaic floor leads to a second vestibule, from which, to the East, you access the upper floor occupied by the bath and the lodgings. The bath complex, which extends along the entire side of the palace, consists of a series of five rooms parallel to the corridor; in the calidarium (for hot water baths) there are two apses, one with a bath tub and another with a bronze basin for ablutions. The West side had a multi-story building for the servants, with identical rooms arranged along a corridor. The imperial residence quarter, on the other hand, accessed via a ramp, is made up of a large semicircular hall and smaller rooms; while the private lodging for the emperor, located on the extreme peak of the mountain and overlooking North towards the interior of the island and West towards the sea, secluded from the rest of the palace, was composed of three rooms: an entrance vestibule with a front porch terrace and two rooms with spacious windows and multi-colored marble inlay floors.
Information about Villa Jovis
Via Tiberio
80073 Capri (Naples)
0818370381
pm-cam.jovis.grottaazzurra@beniculturali.it
https://www.polomusealecampania.beniculturali.it
Source: MIBACT
