A valley now filled with venerable evergreen oaks and olives used to be the location for one of t
he most spectacular and suggestive groups of monuments in the villa. The appearance of those structures still standing is only a shadow of the complex's original splendor. A magnificent \b \cf1 \ATXht14 nymphaeum\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , adorned with niches and
numerous cascades, supplied water to a long pool surrounded by statues, which may have been intended to recall the canal that linked Alexandria in Egypt to the delta of the Nile, near Canope.\par