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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 ...
This is a list of cities and towns founded by the Romans. It lists cities established and built by the ancient Romans to have begun as a colony, often for the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions. Many Roman colonies in antiquity rose to become important commercial and cultural centers, transportation hubs and capitals of global ...
The villa is likely to be one of the latifundia, or great private estates, specialising in agriculture destined for export (grain, olive oil, wine) which played a large role in society and in the economy in the Imperial period. By the 2nd century AD, latifundia had displaced small farms as the agricultural foundation of the Roman Empire.
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.
Roman villa Cerro del Campo, Monroy Villa of El Ruedo Roman villa Fuente Álamo 37°28′23″N 4°2′3″W / 37.47306°N 4.03417°W / 37.47306; -4
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 ...
The Attingham Estate in England, an 18 th century mansion open to the public with 200 acres of parkland, invites visitors to stroll through the buried ruins of the Roman city of Wroxeter. Now ...
The extensive, luxurious Roman villa Palazzi di Casignana is located on the seashore and near the ancient road linking ancient Locri and Rhegion in today's province of Calabria, Italy. [1] It was discovered in 1964. [2] It reached its zenith during the late empire of the 4th c. AD, a period of turbulence elsewhere.