NETWORK OF ROMAN VILLAS OF HISPANIA
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NETWORK OF ROMAN VILLAS OF HISPANIA

The Association "Red de Cooperación Villas romanas de Hispania", is a transversal work initiative that aims to cover the whole territory of the ancient Roman Hispania in a heritage, cultural and touristic, innovative and sustainable proposal.


In itinere, or on the way, is a product of archaeological tourism that, far from the massification of the great tourist circuits, proposes a suggestive experience, discovering a territory of deep history and tradition through the visit to each of the Roman villas that make it up.

 

Roman Villa "El Ruedo"

The Roman Villa El Ruedo sits on a gentle slope overlooking the fertile plain of the river Almedinilla in the Cordoban municipality of the same name. The first settlement dates from the middle of the 1st century, with several phases of occupation thereafter, the most important being from the end of the 3rd century until the middle of the 5th century, when it acquired its most aristocratic aspect, with the residential area or pars urbana being very well preserved and exhumed in its entirety.

Thus, its mural paintings, more than 50 linear metres of preserved mosaics, the large and original sculptural ensemble (which can be seen in the town's Historical Museum) and the so-called Dining Hall or triclinium stand out for the originality of the monumental fountain or nymphaeum that presides over it and for the stibadium, or triclinium-like dining table, which has been preserved in perfect condition.

The triclinium must have housed the bronze statue of Hypnos, the god of Sleep, a room which seems to recreate the abode of Sleep described in mythology, in a domestic setting where the profane and the sacred are united through domestic worship.

In the last phase of occupation (mid-5th and 7th centuries), a "peasant appropriation" can be glimpsed, with Christian traces, amortising spaces for agricultural and livestock uses that had previously belonged to the residential area.

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Roman villa "El Ruedo" Historical-archaeological Museum Iberian village "Cerro de la Cruz" The Pleasures of the Roman Table Hiking trail "Salto del caballo" Legend "La Encantá"

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Almedinilla Benamejí Cabra Carcabuey Doña Mencía Encinas Reales Fuente Tójar Iznájar Lucena Luque Palenciana Priego de Córdoba Rute Zuheros
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