Description
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The visit takes place with a minimum group of 4 people
Visit with Guide
The visit takes place with an authorized guide
Tickets included
Tickets for the Appia Antica site and the mausoleum of Cecilia Metella are included
Walking tour
The visit takes place on foot
group tour
The groups consist of a maximum of 10 people
Lunch included
Lunch consisting of an appetizer, first course, dessert, coffee and water
Description
The Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella rises just beyond the Maxentius complex and is a funerary monument built in the years between 30 and 20 BC. for a Roman noblewoman, Cecilia Metella, of whom there is not much information except that given by the large funerary inscription on the upper part of the mausoleum: “CAECILIAE Q (UINTI) CRETICI F (ILIAE) METELLAE CRASSI”, or “A Cecilia Metella , daughter of Quintus Creticus (and wife) of Crassus “. The imposing and elegant monument, consisting of a high square concrete base, now devoid of its cladding in travertine blocks, rests on a cylindrical body of 30 meters in diameter, covered with travertine slabs cut into a false ashlar. The sepulcher recalls that of Augustus himself, only smaller and decorated in the upper part by a marble frieze with festoons and ox heads. The presence of these reliefs takes the name of “Capo di Bove” with which the area was known in the Middle Ages.
For each additional participant Full € 90.00, Reduced € 80.00.
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