Villa rustica

Scale model of a Roman villa rustica. Remains of villas of this type have been found in the vicinity of Valjevo, Serbia.

Villa rustica (transl. farmhouse or countryside villa) was the term used by the ancient Romans[1][2] to denote a farmhouse or villa set in the countryside and with an agricultural section, which applies to the vast majority of Roman villas. In some cases they were at the centre of a large agricultural estate, sometimes called a latifundium. The adjective rustica was used only to distinguish it from a much rarer sub-urban resort villa, or otium villa built for purely leisure and luxury, and typically located in the Bay of Naples. The villa rustica would thus serve both as a residence of the landowner and his family (and servants) and also as a farm management centre. It would often comprise separate buildings to accommodate farm labourers and sheds and barns for animals and crops.[3][4][5][6][7]

The villa rustica's design differed, but usually it consisted of two parts; the pars urbana (main house),[8] and the pars rustica (farm area).

List of villae rusticae

See also: List of Roman villas in Belgium and List of Roman sites in Spain

Austria

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Italy

Boscoreale villa
Mosaic floor at Villa dei Volusii

Portugal

Villa of Torre de Palma

Turkey

United Kingdom

See also: List of Roman villas in England and List of Roman villas in Wales
Orpheus mosaic at Littlecote Roman Villa
Ruins of the Villa rustica, Montmaurin

France

See also: Roman villas in northwestern Gaul

Germany

Wurmlingen
Villa rustica, Haselburg at Höchst i. Odw., Hypocaust of the main building
Eschweiler

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Hesse

Northrhine-Westphalia

Rheinland-Palatine

Ceiling painting at the Roman villa of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler

Saarland

Serbia

Switzerland

Aargau

Basel-Landschaft

Genf

Jura

Solothurn

Waadt

Zürich

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