Hadrian's Villa, known as Villa Adriana, was created in Tivoli by the emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century.

Hadrian's Villa was a complex of over 30 buildings covering an area of ​​at least one square kilometer, much of which remains unexcavated. The villa was the largest Roman example of an Alexandrian-style garden, recreating a sacred landscape.

The Villa is like a small city with palaces, fountains, several baths, libraries, a theater, temples, rooms for official ceremonies and rooms for courtiers, praetorians and slaves.

Hadrian's Villa brings together various structures representing different places and monuments of the Roman world. Therefore, it displays echoes of architectural orders, mostly Greek and Egyptian. Hadrian, on his many travels, borrowed these designs, such as the caryatids for the Canopus, along with statues representing the Egyptian god of fertility, Bes.