Villa die Quintili

The Villa dei Quintili was built around 150 A.D. and was once the largest residential building outside the city of Rome. Originally it belonged to Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus and his brother Sextus Quintilius Condianus, consuls from the year 151. After Emperor Commodus had the brothers executed under the pretext of a planned conspiracy, the villa became his property in 182. From there he made it his residence and extended the building.