Mausoleum of Lucius Planck
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Mausoleum of Lucius Planck - one of the most well-preserved attractions Gaeta, referring to the era of ancient Rome. Lucius Planck was born in the 90th year BC, presumably in Tivoli and died at the age of 90 in Gaeta in the year of the Nativity. During his life, he held a variety of positions: he was consul in the year 42 BC when triumvirate Lepidus, censor, and the founder of the city prefect of the two Roman columns. He was also general Julius Caesar in his military campaigns aimed at the conquest of Gaul, and he served in the Civil War. After Caesar won the civil war, he sent Lucius Planck to Spain and appointed him prefect of the city. And after the death of Caesar, Lucius swore allegiance to Cicero, who entrusted him with the foundation of the colony in Gaul. Later, he would become the founder of another colony - Augusta Raurica (now Basel, Switzerland).

The last years of the life of visionary politician Lucius Planck held in Gaeta, a small nice villa, from which have survived only the ruins and the huge mausoleum at the top of Monte Orlando. It is a unique architectural structure was built in the 22 th BC in the form of a cylinder. The mausoleum, built of limestone tufa, stands at an altitude of 168 meters. He has 13, 2 meters in height and about 29 to 5 meters in diameter. The decoration of the mausoleum is a frieze with military symbolism. Nearby is the mausoleum of another Roman public figure - Lucius Sempronius Atratiniya.

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