House 1, or Casa Villanueve

Contributors: Qianli Jiang, Amelia Lamis
Published: 2026-10-01
Last modified: 2026-10-01

Dates

first century BCE

Excavation Dates

unspecified

House Description

This large house, some 4,000 square meters, was long and narrow. (Fig. 2) Various construction phases and uses have been identified. The first phase of the house, which dates to the first century BCE, was built around an atrium. The magnificent and unusually large peristyle garden (23 x 29 m) was added in the second phase in the Augustan era and was reached by a little stairway. The garden included a semicircular stone seat, an open space with a pool, and an ambulacros and below it, a subterranean cryptoportico was located on the northeastern side of the garden. The garden offered a spectacular view of the sea.

Plans

Plan of R1 Casa Villanueve.

Bibliography

  • A. Balil Iliana, Casa y urbanismo en la España antigua. Casa familiar y vivienda colectiva en la España romana, in Boletín del Seminario de Estudios de Arte y Arqueología, XXXVIII. Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, 1973, pp. 90-100 (worldcat)
  • X. Aquilué, J. Ruíz de Arbulo, "La jardinería en la época antigua," in Historia de los Parques y Jardines en España. Edita FCC, Madrid, 2001 p. 18-20. (worldcat)

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