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  2. Roman villa - Wikipedia

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    A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house in the territory of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Nevertheless, the term "Roman villa" generally covers buildings with the common features of being extra-urban (i.e. located outside urban settlements, unlike the domus which was inside ...

  3. Roman Villa Palazzi di Casignana - Wikipedia

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    The residential part overlooked the sea and a garden on the west side, and has a monumental facade flanked by two towers of several floors and protuding towards the sea. This almost unique design feature in Roman villas was apparently similar only to that at the Villa della Palombara in Lazio. This part is the result of several modifications ...

  4. Villa Romana del Casale - Wikipedia

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    The Villa Romana del Casale (Sicilian: Villa Rumana dû Casali) is a large and elaborate Roman villa or palace located about 3 km from the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily. Excavations have revealed Roman mosaics which, according to the Grove Dictionary of Art , are the richest, largest and most varied collection that remains, [ 1 ] for which ...

  5. Archaeologists Found 2 Roman Villas That Tell New Secrets of ...

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    The Roman army first arrived in the late 40s AD and constructed a fort for the 14 th legion south of Wroxeter. A decade later, that fort was replaced by a new one built less than a mile north.

  6. ‘Remarkable’ Roman villa discovered under housing development

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    Archaeologists have unearthed a “remarkable” Roman villa complex on a housing development site in a small English village. The complex was decorated with painted plaster, mosaics and there was ...

  7. Ancient Roman villa — where eruption of Mount Vesuvius could ...

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    Based on the villa’s age and location, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried Pompeii would have been visible from the home, archaeologists said. Ruins of the 1,900-year-old villa in Miseno.

  8. Hadrian's Villa - Wikipedia

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    Hadrian's Villa (Italian: Villa Adriana; Latin: Villa Hadriana) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising the ruins and 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.

  9. Villa rustica - Wikipedia

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    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.