Posted on 02/23/2006 8:42:21 AM PST by SunkenCiv
A Roman villa dating back to the III Century AD has been found near Catania in Sicily... The villa, which is thought to cover about 2,500 square metres, may be the same one discovered by a famous Italian archaeologist, Paolo Orsi, at the beginning of the last century. Orsi found traces of a mosaic floor but no excavation followed his preliminary dig and the site is believed to have been covered up again by subsequent earth movements and vegetation.
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Catania ping!
2500 square meters? More mansion than villa, I'd say - approx. 8,200 sq. ft.!
Wow, a Roman villa in Sicily. Who wooda thunkit?
Whoopsie! MY Bad! Make that almost 27,000 sq. ft.! That's Hugh!
AD 306 - Constantine the Great rules until 337. He permitted open practice of Christian religion. This villa could be from that time.
(Subsequently the vandals and ostrogoths invaded for another 2 hundred years and then the Byzantines were back until the Muslims invaded in the 9th century.)
Huge is right. The warmer the climate, the bigger the house. :')
Are you series? Is it really that hugh? My beeber is stunned!
lol
La casa nostra.
That was my thought. Kinda like finding coal in Newcastle?
i think the fact that it has just been discovered is the most important, it is huge for the economy of sicily which is just getting into the 20th century as far as tourism goes. i lived near catania for almost three years and there are suprisingly very few Roman ruins of any note, mostly its the greatly preserved greek ruins that sicily is noted for. ie. valley of the temples in agrigento or anything in siracusa. as far as the romans were concerned sicily might as well have been an outpost, all it was used for was its ability to produce wheat.
Interesting stuff, thanks for the info!
Thanks, Navy Doc, for your service, I and mine appreciate you.
i should thank you, it was very harsh being stationed in such a harsh environment like italy!!
Sounds about like our posting for 3 years to Munich.
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