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The Hall of the Doric Pillars or Edificio con Pilastri Dorici, Villa Adriana. Tivoli. Italy. This is an open area surrounded by a vaulted portico with fluted pillars in the Doric order. Originally the rectangular portico had 8 pillars on its short side and twelve on its long side. It has a refined epistyle of the Ionic order, a Doric frieze with metopes and triglyphs in an archaic style. It is believed the structure connected the east and west parts of the villa. Hadrian’s villa, built by the emperor (117-138 AD) as summer imperial retreat, is a vast open air museum of some the finest architecture of the Roman world and the Roman Empires largest and richest villa ever built. It is a UNSECO World Heritage Site.
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- Tivoli - Villa Hadrian - Italy