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| Garden Stadium This structure has a garden connected to a building with tubs for plants, a free central area and a great fountain with portico fed by two canals, which run the entire length of the complex. Winter Palace This building has the heritage of having lots of famous visitors for its paintings. The porticoed courtyard has 40 marble columns raised on a podium. Firemen’s Headquarter This lies outside the palace having two groups of three rooms each and a rectangular courtyard with bricks. It could have served as servant’s residence. Quadriporticus This area is decorated with marbles and might have served as dining room for officials, especially during summer. It is characterized by 3 great porticos, hence the name. It has fountains too. Small Baths This is an octagonal room with convex and flat walls and probably would have served as the bath complex for women. Vestibulum This happens to be the building between the Small and the Great baths. Part of it was used as a gymnasium. Great Baths This is men’s bath complex. To the west there is a corridor with ovens. Towards the south there is a room with three pools. To the east is a great room decorated in plaster. To the center there is rectangular and semicircular pools. Service givers used them all Praetorium This complex is with many floors, which served as residences for service personnel and as storage rooms. Canopus This refers to an artificial canal that connected the Egyptian city of Canopus in the Nile delta with Alexandria. Hadrian's Villa is identified with this structure at the end of the lake. Through the centre of the valley is the canal surrounded by colonnade. South of the canal is a rectangular pool with side areas ending in four columns topped by a beam. The curved side of the canal holds the Nile, the Tiber, a crocodile along its side. At the end of the pool is a semicircular portico covered with half dome. Out of the series of niches, cascading fountains occupy four and the rest holds statues. |
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