page_title: Park of the Caffarella
section_title: Major features
hierarchical_section_title: Park of the Caffarella / Major features
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: L'antico Casale della Vaccareccia, nel Parco della Caffarella, a Roma.
context_page_description: The Caffarella Park is a large park in Rome, Italy, protected from development. It is part of the Parco Regionale Appia Antica. The park is contained in the Caffarella Valley and is bordered on its northern side by the Via Latina and on its southern by the Appian Way. It stretches from the Aurelian Wall up to the Via dell'Almone. It contains several items of archaeological interest, as well as a working farm, and has considerable ecological value, with 78 species of birds and fauna. The Catacombs of Rome and Colli Albani are nearby.
context_section_description: The Nympheum of Egeria. This spring and the surrounding construction can be dated back to the middle of the 2nd century AD by reference to the types of bricks used in its construction. The water springs from the rear of the nympheum under a now-headless reclining statue of the god Almo (a personification of the River Almone). The Nympheum was constructed by Herodes Atticus after he was cleared of the murder of Annia Regilla.
  Tomb of Annia Regilla. This well-preserved building is also known as the Temple of the God Rediculus, as scholars erroneously believed that its temple-like appearance meant that it had been built in honour of Rediculus, the god that Romans honoured at the beginning and end of each journey. Designed as a sepulchre, it is not certain that it is the tomb of Annia Regilla. The construction is of red and yellow brick and there are two floors, with significant remaining external decoration. In the Middle Ages, it served as a hay loft for a neighbouring farmhouse.
  Valca Tower. This building is constructed from rectangular blocks of tuff and dates back to the 12th or 13th centuries. It was protected by a first wall of defence and a drawbridge. The tower is believed to have been part of a fulling mill.
  Roman cistern. Constructed around 100 AD and originally underground, this cistern was exposed when earth moving was carried out for the construction of the nearby Circus of Maxentius.
  Columbarium of Constantine. This columbarium, a building for housing the ashes of the deceased, dates back to the 2nd century AD. During the Middle Ages it was converted into a mill.
  The Sacred Wood is a spot on a hill overlooking the valley and with good views of the mountains surrounding Rome and the Castelli Romani. According to tradition, this is the spot at which Herodes Atticus ordered a sacred wood to be planted.
   
  Church of Sant'Urbano alla Caffarella. A 7th-century church built over a 2nd-century pagan temple.
caption: The old Casale della Vaccareccia
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