Mausoleo di Augusto

Roma Capitale records the ashes of Octavia, Marcellus, Agrippa, Drusus, Germanicus, Livia, Tiberius, Agrippina, Caligula, Britannicus, Claudius and Poppaea as deposited here, and that Nero and Julia the Elder were excluded. The mausoleum held the ashes of Vespasian and then of Nerva for a short time, and more than a century after the last deposition it was opened again for those of Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus. Two granite obelisks stood in front of it and were later reused, one set at piazza dell'Esquilino behind Santa Maria Maggiore in 1587 and the other in the fountain of the Dioscuri at piazza del Quirinale in 1783. The building served afterwards as a fortress, a garden, an amphitheatre and, in the early 1900s, a concert hall, and was restored between 1936 and 1938 with the demolition of the quarter around it. Roma Capitale names Rem Koolhaas as designer of the forthcoming museum layout and Bvlgari as its funder.