Ancient site · Italy · Partial ruin
Villa Romana del Casale
The Villa Romana del Casale is a large late Roman villa (pars dominica) near Piazza Armerina, Sicily, celebrated for its exceptionally extensive and well-preserved mosaic and opus sectile floors. Constructed in the early 4th century AD, the complex groups a monumental entrance, peristyles, a grand basilica, triclinium, private baths and many decorated reception and service rooms around a central peristyle.
Its prime
AD 330
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in AD 330
The shape it held in its prime.
A sprawling single‑storey stone complex centred on a large rectangular peristyle and multiple apsidal halls; low rubble and ashlar walls enclose open colonnades, marble columns and paved courts. Interior floors are dominated by dense polychrome pebble mosaics and opus sectile panels; the basilica entrance shows paired pink Egyptian granite columns. Southward lies an oval/tri‑apsed triclinium opening onto an elliptical peristyle with fountains and a semi‑circular nymphaeum. Many rooms are roofless but floor decoration is intact.
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12 places to explore in AD 330.
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