Villa Romana Bagnoli

Coordinates38°09′N 14°44′E / 38.150°N 14.733°E / 38.150; 14.733

Foundedearly 3rd century AD

Villa Bagnoli
History
Villa Bagnoli Shown within Italy
Location	Sicily, Italy
Coordinates	38°09′N 14°44′E / 38.150°N 14.733°E / 38.150; 14.733
Type	Roman villa
Founded	early 3rd century AD
Cultures	Roman
Site notes
Ownership	Public

The Roman Villa of Bagnoli is located in contrada Bagnoli-San Gregorio, near the town of Capo d'Orlando, Sicily.^[1]

The site was discovered in 1986 during the construction of a carpark, and subsequent archaeological excavations unearthed part of a luxurious seaside villa dating from the early third century AD.

The rooms explored so far belonged to thermal baths decorated with floor mosaics. Much of the villa remains buried beneath buildings and a road.

Six rooms have been excavated, including a tepidarium (room 4) and a caldarium (rooms 5-6). These rooms have the traditional Roman hypocaust heating system.

The polychrome mosaics of the villa are geometric designs, stylistically close to North African mosaics, and damaged areas suggest figures were also included.

References

↑ "Late antique villas in Sicily | Villa Romana del Casale". Archived from the original on 2019-03-13. Retrieved 2017-07-13.

Sources

U. SPIGO, Prime considerazioni sui mosaici geometrici del complesso termale di Bagnoli S. Gregorio a Capo d’Orlando, in AttiIV Colloquio AISCOM [Palermo 1996], Ravenna 1997, p. 259-272)

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