He visited almost every province of the Empire, accompanied by an imperial retinue of specialists and administrators.

Hadrian energetically pursued his own imperial ideals and personal interests. He is known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Britannia. Hadrian preferred to invest in the development of stable, defensible borders and the unification of the empire's disparate peoples. He earned further disapproval among the elite by abandoning Trajan's expansionist policies and territorial gains in Mesopotamia, Assyria, Armenia, and parts of Dacia. They had opposed Hadrian or seemed to threaten his succession, and the Senate held him responsible for their deaths and never forgave him. Rome's military and Senate approved Hadrian's succession, but four leading senators were unlawfully put to death soon after. When Trajan died, his widow claimed that he had nominated Hadrian as emperor immediately before his death. Plotina and Trajan's close friend and adviser Lucius Licinius Sura were well disposed towards Hadrian. Hadrian married Trajan's grand-niece Vibia Sabina early in his career before Trajan became emperor and possibly at the behest of Trajan's wife Pompeia Plotina.

His father was of senatorial rank and was a first cousin of Emperor Trajan. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman municipium founded by Italic settlers in Hispania Baetica his branch of the gens Aelia, the Aeli Hadriani, came from the town of Hadria. Hadrian ( / ˈ h eɪ d r i ən/ Latin: Caesar Trajanus Hadrianus 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.

Roman Empire Free instaling