Varignano Vecchio
Creators: Stefano Costa
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44.0637806568, 9.84121257286
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Villa romana del Varignano (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Varignano Vecchio (Italian, modern)
- Varignano Vecchio part of (regional) Liguria (region) (unspecified date range)
- Varignano Vecchio connection Ligusticum Mare (unspecified date range)
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production center (manufacturing, fishing), bath, spa, cistern, villa
Pleiades
The Roman villa at Varignano Vecchio was built in the early first century B.C., on the site of a residential building that marks the first settlement a few decades earlier. The main architectural phases date to:
- the period of Sulla, when the complex was built in its entirety with a large and monumental pars urbana and a pars fructuaria, from which the torcularia are archaeologically preserved;
- the first half of the first century A.D., when new thermal baths were built together with an imposing water cistern, while oil production was discontinued;
- the late fourth century A.D., when large transformations occur in the plan of the complex, but more detailed traces from this phase are not otherwise recognisable due to ploughing.
Stefano Costa, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Varignano Vecchio: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/362185575> [accessed: 30 December 2024]
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