It would have been a shocking sight in the desolate wilderness, 630 miles north of Rome itself. “The wall here was plastered and painted,” Hüssen says. “Everything was square and precise.

It turns out the Rome we know and love is just around the corner – 15 minutes away, within the city’s ancient walls. But I’m in ‘New Rome’, a bizarre architectural vision of Italy’s ...

Hadrian’s Wall in Britain “and a host of other monuments ... in 1803 on a visit to the emperor’s villa at Tivoli near Rome. Hadrian’s Villa’s size, opulence, and design touches from ...