Built in the 1st century B.C., Villa Pausilypon was the summer home of Publius Vedius Pollio, a Roman equivalent of a knight and friend of the first Roman emperor Augustus.

From a clifftop walking trail to a subterranean Roman villa, via a martini worthy of a film star — here’s how to make the most of your time on Italy’s prettiest shoreline.

Take time out for an afternoon at The Newt in Somerset, where you’ll explore the Roman Villa Experience with Nicola du Pisanie of Stonewood Design and Ric Weeks from The Newt. This event is a unique ...

The story of Villa Barberini is one of remarkable transformation. From its beginnings as a grand Roman villa built by Emperor Domitian, the site lay dormant for centuries before being revived in ...

Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese is offering a 10-day “Italy: City and Coast Getaway” for travelers looking to extend their stay. ... “Roman Street Food Tour” with Daverro Rome; ...

(See the best travel gadgets of 2009.) Villa Laetitia’s staff can arrange massage sessions, personal training and shopping tours of Rome, which naturally include a stop at a Fendi boutique.

A Roman villa with the only known ceiling mural by Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is set to be auctioned with an estimate of €471 million (US$545.8 million) early next year ...

Roman villa. Maschek explained that Italian archaeologists first excavated the site in the 1980s and discovered the remains of murals, floor mosaics, houses and public baths.

Archaeologists have unearthed a “remarkable” Roman villa complex on a housing development site in a small English village. The complex was decorated with painted plaster, mosaics and there was ...