The place was very extensive, and housed several thousand people: staff, visitors, servants and slaves. In order to keep the site quiet and more peaceful, it has a network of underground tunnels.

Until the 4th century the Villa was occasionally used by his successors, but fell into decay afterwards. It was Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este (1509 – 1572) , who used an important number of statues and marble for his Villa d'Este.

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