Villa del Casale is located about 3 km (1.8 miles) far from Piazza Armerina, a town in the province of Enna, Sicily - Italy. This rich villa was recently recognized World Heritage Site by Unesco. Some columns and mosaics were already found early in the 19th century, but only after the excavations performed in 1929, then in 1935-39 and 1950-60, the Villa del Casale was completely uncovered.

The late-Roman villa, whose owner was probably a member of senatorial class or imperial family, the upper class of the Roman Empire, has a defined planimetry consisting of four groups of rooms with galleries, peristyles, courts and thermal areas: it's a big complex of buildings in which we find a pleasant sinuosity, differences in level, exedras, stairs and asymmetries that obeyed above all to a specific function. Villa Romana del Casale, with its over 3500 sqm (4200 sqyd) of mosaic floor, is the most extraordinary model of mosaic decoration art that, for the complexity of its iconographic apparatus, is not comparable to the mosaics of the Roman Tunisian villas. The wonderful mosaic floor of the villa, really famous all over the world, shows different aspects of Roman life, like the so called “Corridor of the Great Hunt” and the "Bikini Room".

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