It’s an imperial villa built by Emperor Massenzio. The complex is located between the second and third mile of via Appia Antica and is divided into three main buildings: the palace, the Massenzio circus and the dynastic mausoleum, designed in an inseparable architectonic unit to celebrate Massenzio.

The best-known monument in the whole complex is the Massenzio circus, the only Roman circus that is still whole from the point of view of its architectonical structure.

There is a dynastic mausoleum also known as the Tomb of Romolous, from Valerio Romolo, the young son of the emperor, who was supposedly buried here, inside a quadriporticus on Via Appia Antica.

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