The Villa Jovis is perhaps Capri’s best preserved Roman villa. It was built in the 1st Century AD for Emperor Tiberius. This impressive building overlooks the sea from the top of Mount Tiberio and comprises imperial quarters, entertainment areas, grand halls and gardens. The Villa Jovis has been described as a ‘giant Roman pleasure palace’. It covers some 7,000m on several floors. The stairway behind the villa to the Salto di Tiberio, is where Tiberius is believed to have had certain unfavourable subjects tossed to the sea.
