This product offers you a teletour of the South Theater at Hadrian’s Villa. Located today on private property not open to the public, the South Theater was a gem of Roman art and architecture. Seating over one thousand spectators, it is famous today for its sculptural decoration, which included a series of statues of Apollo and the Muses .. Most are still extant today and can be seen in the Prado Museum in Madrid and elsewhere. The tour is led by Prof. Bernard Frischer, Director of the Hadrian’s Villa Reborn Project and of the Digital Hadrian’s Villa Project (http://vwhl.soic.indiana.edu/villa/). Frischer has spent over twenty years studying the site. Follow him on this virtual tour to see the standing ruins of the South Theater as well as dramatic aerial panoramas of the villa and the Tiburtine landscape. Along the way, travel back in time to see the theater as it appeared in antiquity. Learn about the impressive works of sculpture found here and also about how artists, architects, and archaeologists have studied the theater since the Renaissance. 

The Bulgarini  family, which owns the land on which the ruins stand, is pleased to grant this virtual access to the people of the world. They would like you to appreciate the amazing ruins so lovingly preserved by generation after generation of the family for the past four centuries.