Transcript villa
By rock star • 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. . •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. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fun +Facts+about+ancient+rome+villas&aq=f&o q= http:// www.google.com search hl=ancient roman+ villas http://images.google.com/images?imgurl=htt p:// http://books.google.com/books?id=KyUCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA244 &dq=ancient+roman+villa