Villa di Licinio Lucullo

The villa of Lucullus was an extensive and sumptuous ancient Roman villa built in the first century BC in Naples by the famous gourmet, general and consul Lucius Licinius Lucullus. It was one of his several known villas in addition to the Gardens of Lucullus in Rome, one in Tusculum in the Alban Hills, one on the island of Nisida and another at Misenum also in the Bay of Naples. The villa was equipped with piers that stretched out into the sea, a very rich library, fish ponds and moray eel farms and lavish gardens with peach trees imported from Persia which for the time were a novelty along with the cherry trees he brought in from Cerasus.

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