VILLA ROMANA
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Villa with central patio housing an interpretation center with panels, explanatory videos and a model
Although work began in 2006 and reached its peak in 2011, excavations are still continuing at the present time, as only a small part of the complex, founded in the first quarter of the 1st century AD and abandoned in the first half of the 6th century, has been discovered. Excavations to date have revealed the following: the central patio of the villa or peristyle; a triclinium, 9.7 metres long and 6.90 metres wide, which was to serve as the central dining room, covered with mosaics with geometric and polychrome vegetal motifs ; the nymphaeum, a sanctuary dedicated to nymphs and the ambulatory linking the atrium and the triclinium, with a floor covered with figurative mosaics, one of which is thought to represent the figure of Anfitride, Poseidon's companion. To the north-west and south-east of the ambulatory, two other rooms with as yet unknown functionality are being excavated. The excavation of the peristyle in 2017 led to the discovery of a very exceptional mosaic representing hunting scenes. And the summer of 2018 was the year of another important discovery, that of the Venus Capitolina, a white marble sculpture whose arms cover the chest, found in the nymphaeum, just as the other two nymphs of Salar, the Venus Venera and the Venus Púdica, had been found before. The visit starts with the interpretation centre with explanatory panels and videos and a model of what the villa must have been like as a whole.
