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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 ...
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.
The Villa Poppaea is an ancient luxurious Roman seaside villa (villa maritima) located in Torre Annunziata between Naples and Sorrento, in Southern Italy. It is also called the Villa Oplontis or Oplontis Villa A [ 1 ] as it was situated in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis .
Villa/Vila (or its cognates) is part of many Spanish and Portuguese placenames, like Vila Real and Villadiego: a villa/vila is a town with a charter (fuero or foral) of lesser importance than a ciudad/cidade ("city"). When it is associated with a personal name, villa was probably used in the original sense of a country estate rather than a ...
The Villa of the Papyri before the eruption. A plan of Herculaneum and the location of the Villa. The Villa of the Papyri (Italian: Villa dei Papiri, also known as Villa dei Pisoni and in early excavation records as the Villa Suburbana) was an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum, in what is now Ercolano, southern Italy.
The so-called Villa of Augustus (Latin: Villa Augustae) is an ancient Roman villa in Somma Vesuviana that may have been owned by Augustus, the first emperor of Rome.. In April 2024, archaeologists from the University of Tokyo claimed to have discovered the possible identity of the villa after excavations that started in 2002.
A list of Roman villas in England confirmed by archaeology. Bedfordshire. Name Location Grid reference PastScape link Notes Colworth Colworth House: Historic England. ...
Villa Armira is composed of two floors, and it contains the typical rooms that other Roman villas would have. The two-storey U-shaped villa spreads over 3,600 square metres (39,000 sq ft) amidst a garden, with an impluvium in the middle. Villa Armira had 22 separate rooms on the ground floor alone in addition to a panoramic terrace.