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| Obelisk of Antinous |
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| Pincian Hill, Park & Expensive Restaurant |
If you walking up Viale della Trinita dei Monti like we did then you will come to a fork in the road, take a slight right onto the Viale Adamo Mickievicz and within a few minute on should see the obelisk in the center of the piazza Bucharest on the right (east).
Pincian Hill and Obelisk: This obelisk was made for Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli as an adornment to the tomb of his lover Antinous, who some say was drowned in the Nile as a ritual sacrifice. I think I already mentioned that. So there is your Egyptian link, Hadrian was obsessed with Egypt.
Anyway, this park with its neoclassical architecture, switchback carriage lane and monumental staircase and sweeping views of the city was created during Napoleon’s brief rule of Italy.
The obelisk was finally set up here in the Piazza Bucharest in the 1820’s after being set up at the Vatican after earlier being robbed from the tomb of Antinous and set in the center of the circus Varianus by our good friend and certified nutter Heliogabalus.
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| Pincian Hill with Obelisk of Antinous |
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