From day 4 – 23/07/2024 - of our famiy break in Sicily.
Our main attraction of the day was the amazing remains of a Roman villa. I have visited a few others but nothing like this.
One more shot of the Roman Villa This must be a sort of temple. Having said that, I remembered I had bought a book from the souvenir shop outside the ruins area which I hadn’t opened yet. the book says that it was a basilica..
From Google:
“This grand apsidal hall was an audience hall and the most formal room in the villa, accessed through a grand monumental entrance divided by two columns of pink Egyptian granite. An exceptionally elaborate polychrome opus sectile floor consisting of marbles coming from all over the Mediterranean lies at the entrance and is the richest decoration in the villa; it also covered the walls. This type of marble, rather than mosaic, constituted the material of greatest prestige in the Roman world.”
Many thanks for al your views and comments on yesterday's picture
@casablanca no. It is a replica in wood of a quater sphere like the ones you see in churches above the choir behind the main altar, at least in many of Malta's churches
