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Villa Romana Del Casale

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Villa del Casale
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Place Built	near the town of Piazza Armerina in Sicily
Construction date	Late ^third century
Ordered by	Probably Maximian Hercules
Building Type	Villa
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Villa Romana del Casale is a villa located near the town of Piazza Armerina , south of Sicily. Its construction began in the late ^third century. It has about thirty rooms decorated 3500 sq mosaics. It was occupied until 1160 when it was ravaged by fire and disappeared beneath a landslide from Mount Mangane.

Summary

1 A Late Roman villa
2 Main parts of the Villa
- 2.1 Images
3 Notes, references
4 See also
- 4.1 Article Related
- 4.2 Bibliography
5 External Links

A villa of the Lower Empire

Long attributed to Maximian Hercules , a colleague of Diocletian in Tetrarchy. It is now accepted that his sponsor had to be a figure close to the imperial power, but his name remains unknown.

The site was recognized in 1812 but it took until 1929 to reveal the first mosaic ( Labours of Hercules ). The end date of restoration of 1954.

Spa

The baths were heated by the system of hypocaust and supplied with water by an aqueduct. They consisted of two hot baths (caldarium), a mean temperature bath (tepidarium), a large frigidarium of circular and decorated with a mosaic depicting a water scene, a sauna , a pool for swimming and a Hall of Anointing : a mosaic depicts the Greek practice which used strigil.

Entry

The entry includes a polygonal courtyard and vestibule.

Peristyle

The porch is an essential element of the architecture of Roman villas: the villa of Casale, its dimensions are 38 meters by 18 meters.

Main parts of the Villa

The mosaics adorn the floors of various rooms:

Ambulacra of the Great Game with a mosaic of 60 meters long and 350 sq ft
Palestra Fair or Circus: mosaics represent the Circus Maximus in Rome.
Hall of Dance
Hall of Seasons
Hall of Little Hunting
Room children fishermen
House of girls in bikinis
Room of the myth of Orpheus
Nursery pickers
Triclinium (dining)
House of the housewife: mosaic representing Arion
Atrium or boudoir

Images

Sports exercises
Sports exercises
About love
Hunting
Young Woman with dumbbells
Children on a float
Child chasing a domestic goat
Ball game

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Notes, references

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External Links

World Heritage in Italy
Cultural	Rock Art of Valcamonica (1979) Historic Centre of Rome , the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and St. Paul Outside the Walls (1980) (the Vatican) The Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci (1980) Historic Centre of Florence (1982) Piazza del Duomo in Pisa (1987) Venice and its Lagoon (1987) Historic Centre of San Gimignano (1990) The Sassi and the Park of the Rock Churches of Matera (1993) City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto (1994) Historic Centre of Naples (1995) Historic Centre of Siena ( 1995) Crespi d'Adda (1995) Ferrara , City of the Renaissance and its Po Delta (1995) Castel del Monte (1996) Historic Centre of the City of Pienza (1996) The Trulli of Alberobello (1996) Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna (1996) Cathedral , Torre Civica and Piazza Grande , Modena (1997) Amalfi Coast (1997) Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico) , Padua (1997) Residences of the Savoy (1997) Su Nuraxi of Barumini (1997) royal palace of the eighteenth ^century at Caserta with the Park , the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and the San Leucio (1997) Portovenere , Cinque Terre and the Islands ( Palmaria , Tino and Tinetto ) (1997) Villa Romana del Casale (1997) Archaeological Area of Agrigento (1997) Archaeological Areas of Pompei , Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata (1997) Historic Centre of Urbino (1998) National Park of Cilento and Vallo Diano , with the archaeological sites of Paestum and Velia and the Certosa di Padula (1998) Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia (1998) Villa Adriana (Tivoli) (1999) Assisi , the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites (2000) City of Verona (2000) Villa d'Este , Tivoli (2001) Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South eastern Sicily) (2002) Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy (2003) Cemeteries Etruscan Cerveteri and Tarquinia (2004) Val d'Orcia (2004) Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica (2005) Genoa, and the system palaces (2006 ) Rhaetian Railway in the Landscape of the Albula / Bernina (2008) (with Switzerland) Mantua and Sabbioneta (2008)
Natural	Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands) (2000) Monte San Giorgio (2003)) (with Switzerland) The Dolomites (2009)
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Archaeological sites in Sicily
Adranone Agrigento and Valley of the Temples Akrai Camarina Catania Catania Amphitheatre Hill St. Hippolytus ( Caltagirone ) Castelluccio di Noto Cefal Centuripe Colle Madore Gela Heraclea Minoa Himera Lilybaeum Islands Aegadian Aeolian Islands Marsala The Montagna dei Cavalli Monte Adranone Mozia (Motya) Naxos Palermo Necropolis Pantalica Sambuca di Sicilia Segesta Selinunte Amphitheatre Syracuse Syracuse Catacombs Neapolis Archaeological Park (Syracuse) Greek temples in Siracusa Taormina Tyndaris Ustica Villa Romana del Casale Castruriali Roman Villa Villa Romana del Tellaru