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• Wealthy rich people lived in the villas.

• They lived in luxurious villas that were filled with beautiful creative designs.

• Rich Romans made their money from their land, farms and from trading.

• These Romans usually lived on large estates or in villas.

• The Romans with good jobs were craft workers, traders and officials.

• Roman villas were all about status. • The richest decorated their best rooms with mosaics (small

pieces of small colored stone or glass) and painted wall –plaster, exotic stonework, furniture and statuary.

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•The super-rich installed grandiose (large) bath-suites or dining rooms.

•The villa complex usually consisted of three parts.

The third part of the villa was mainly made for storage.

• Storage rooms here would have been used for oil, wine, grain, grapes and any other produce of the villa.

• Other rooms in the villa might include an office, a temple for worship, several bedrooms, a dining room and a kitchen.

• Large villas dominated the rural economy of the Po Valley, Campania, Sicily and were also found in Gual.

• Late Roman owners of villa had luxuries like hypocaust-heated rooms.

• There were two kinds of villas: the villa Urbana, which was a country seat that could easily reached by Rome.

• The rich people that lived in the city would have the walls painted with designs.

• The other villa is called Villa Rustica, and it’s a farmhouse occupied permanently for the servants.

This is called a colonnade from Ancient Rome.

This was left and rebuild by some parts and is one of the most visited places in Rome.

Colonnade were usually built by a villa leading to the gardens.

• FuN FaCtS• Some times the

servants Rustica villa used the storage rooms for prisoners and hospitals.

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