Photo gallery

Photo gallery

The mansio of Philosophiana. A stopping place

A small room used as a privileged entrance to the baths

The catalogue of animals

The mosaics of the late antiquity residence

The Latifundium

The protagonists of the mosaics

The public rooms of the Villa

The realistic depiction of a spa procession with a high-ranking female figure

The Peristyle of the Villa

The Latifundium

A room dedicated to the sea

Solemn and majestic architecture to welcome a high-ranking commissioner

A royal room housed the Dominus during his audiences

Worship of the Lares

The astral interpretation of the mosaic

The senses tell the Bi-Apsed room

The public and private rooms of the villa

A dialogue between mythological and realistic scenes

The senses tell the bi-apsed ambulatory – Corridor of the “Great Hunt”

The senses tell the Basilica

The room of the seasons

A small room represents one of the activities of the thermal bath route

A day of hunting at the villa

The myth of Orpheus

Is the profile of the dominus hidden among the scenes depicted in the mosaics?

The protagonists of the mosaic and the military themed frescoes

Outdoor breakfast

The senses tell the massage room

Date Clues

The golden age: hypotheses about the villa’s period of construction and clues

An official ceremony to welcome the Dominus

The layout of the rooms

A hidden meaning

The senses tell the Vestibule

Criteria for including Piazza Armerina in the WHL

Pars Fructuaria e Pars Rustica

A large banquet hall

The capture of wild animals for the roman amphitheatre games

A line of armed men for an important Dominus

An individual who has attracted the attention of scholars

Form of greeting or ritual?

The senses tell the Quadrangular Peristyle

The apotheosis of Hercules

Banquets and panegyrics enlivened the vast hall, against the background of a floor mosaic celebrating the feats of Hercules

The senses tell the private entrance to the spa

The senses tell the monumental entrance

The late antiquity residence: locus amoenus and centre of administrative activities in the heart of Sicily

The marble from the regions of the empire to decorate the basilica

The senses tell the Tri-Apsed Triclinium

The prestige of the dominus is revealed through the wall frescoes

An eloquent symbol: the signum

A small room embellished with marble

A view of the race from the imperial gallery

The senses tell the room in the private apartment known as “small hunt”

The Mansio of Sophiana

The possible celebration of a solemn event

The main nuclei of the Domus

The Mansio, a stopping place

A chariot race, set in the circus Maximus of Rome, connects the villa to the city and centre of power

The senses tell the Sacellum of the Lares

An organic microcosm: the structure of the villa

A large colonnaded portico, a place of connection between the rooms

High-ranking characters depicted in the mosaics of the apsidal niches of the frigidarium

Auspicious symbols and perhaps the initials of the commissioner’s name decorate the mosaic of the apsidal room

The senses tell the frigidarium

Semi-public rooms

A dignified setting dedicated to the myth of Arion

The paths of virus, a reflection of the Dominus

The composition of the spaces

The rural sacrifice

A decoration that marks time