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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 younger villa contained an upper and lower terrace with rooms on each floor. Inside one room of the younger villa, two marble statues, including one of Dionysus , were discovered. [ 12 ] In the older villa, sixteen amphorae were discovered, along with a warehouse and a furnace, which is believed to have heated a private bathroom.
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 ...
The imperial ancient Roman villa of Ossaia was a large luxurious villa rustica in the rural locality of modern Ossaia, 5 km south of the ancient and modern town of Cortona. It belonged at one time to the family of Augustus , namely his grandsons Gaius Caesar and Lucius Caesar .
The modern English word domestic comes from Latin domesticus, which is derived from the word domus. [2] Along with a domus in the city, many of the richest families of ancient Rome also owned a separate country house known as a villa.
The villa of Els Munts contains several components including a bath, gardens, and temple. In total the villa had a garden, semi-basement corridor with cistern for Caius Valerius Avitus, peristyle, water cistern known locally as "La Tartana", a more extensive water reservoir, dining room (), the Mithraeum—a temple dedicated to the god Mithras, porticoed corridor.
Chedworth Roman Villa is located near Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England [1] and is a scheduled monument. [2] It is one of the largest and most elaborate Roman villas so far discovered in Britain and one with the latest occupation beyond the Roman period .
Villa of Maxentius and Mausoleum of Romulus. The Villa of Maxentius is an imperial villa in Rome, built by the Roman emperor Maxentius.The complex is located between the second and third miles of the ancient Appian Way, and consists of three main buildings: the palace, the circus of Maxentius and the dynastic mausoleum, designed in an inseparable architectural unit to honor Maxentius.