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The most detailed ancient text on the meaning of "villa" is by Varro [3] (116–27 BC) dating from the end of the Republican period, which is used for most modern considerations. [4] But Roman authors (e.g. Columella [ 5 ] [4-70 AD], Cato the Elder [ 6 ] [234-149 BC]) wrote in different times, with different objectives and for aristocratic ...
Hadrian's Villa (Italian: Villa Adriana; Latin: Villa Hadriana) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising the ruins and archaeological remains of a large villa complex built around AD 120 by Roman emperor Hadrian near Tivoli outside Rome. It is the most imposing and complex Roman villa known.
The Villa Medici in Fiesole with early terraced hillside landscape by Leon Battista Alberti The Villa Tamminiemi, an Art Nouveau styled villa and house museum in Helsinki, Finland. A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house that originally provided an escape from urban life. [1]
"Great Witcombe Roman Villa (115513)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Highfold Painswick: Historic England. "Highfold Villa (115532)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Hocberry Rodmarton: Historic England. "Hocberry Roman Villa (212790)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Hucclecote Hucclecote: Historic England.
Ancient main entrance to the Villa Poppaea. The first of the villas, known as Villa A, was discovered in 1593–1600 during the great construction project by Fontana of the Sarno aqueduct to feed the mills at Torre Annunziata, the same aqueduct that was tunnelled through Pompeii where he also found the first remains, but similarly no attempt was made to explore the ruins in Oplontis.
Tusculum is a ruined Roman city in the Alban Hills, in the Latium region of Italy. [1] Tusculum was most famous in Roman times for the many great and luxurious patrician country villas sited close to the city, yet a comfortable distance from Rome, notably the villas of Cicero and Lucullus.
The Villa of the Quintilii (Italian: Villa dei Quintili) is a monumental ancient Roman villa beyond the fifth milestone along the Via Appia Antica just outside the traditional boundaries of Rome, Italy. It was built by the rich and cultured Quintilii brothers Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus and Sextus Quintilius Condianus (consuls in 151 AD ...
Scale model of a Roman villa rustica. Remains of villas of this type have been found in the vicinity of Valjevo, Serbia.. Villa rustica (transl. farmhouse or countryside villa) was the term used by the ancient Romans [1] [2] to denote a farmhouse or villa set in the countryside and with an agricultural section, which applies to the vast majority of Roman villas.