Villa rustica

Villa rusticam (countryside villa) was the term used by the ancient Romans to denote a villa set in the open countryside, often as the hub of a large agricultural estate (latifundium). The adjective rusticum was used to distinguish it from an urban or resort villa. The villa rustica would thus serve both as a residence of the landowner and his family (and retainers) and also as a farm management centre. It would often comprise separate buildings to accommodate farm labourers and sheds and barns for animals and crops. In modern British archaeology, a villa rustica is commonly (and misleadingly) referred to simply as a "Roman villa".

The villa rustica's design differed depending on the architect, but usually it consisted of three parts; the urbana (main house), agricultural center and the rusticana (farm area).

List of Villae rusticae

Model of a Roman Villa Rustica. The remains of villas of this type have been found in the vicinity of Valjevo, Serbia.

Bulgaria

• Villa Armira in Ivaylovgrad

France

• Villa Rustica, Coustaty
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Germany

Wurmlingen

Villa rustica, Haselburg at Höchst i. Odw., Hypocaust of the main building

Eschweiler

Baden-Württemberg

• Villa Rustica, Baden-Baden-Haueneberstein, Roman settlement at Wohlfahrtsberg
• Villa Rustica at Bondorf, Böblingen
• de, Konstanz
• de, Lörrach
• Villa Rustica at Eigeltingen
• Villa Rustica at Gaggenau-Bad Rotenfels / Oberweier
• Villa urbana at Grenzach-Wyhlen (Museum Römervilla)
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• Villa urbana at Heitersheim
• de, Sigmaringen
• Villa Rustica at Hirschberg
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• Villa Rustica at Karlsruhe-Durlach
• Villa Rustica at Langenau
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• de, Heilbronn
• Villa Rustica at Mühlacker
• Villa Rustica at Nagold
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• Villa Rustica at Oberndorf-Bochingen
• de, Rems-Murr-Kreis
• de, Heilbronn
• de, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
• de, Tuttlingen
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• Villa Rustica Bietigheim-Weilerlen at Bietigheim-Bissingen, Ludwigsburg

Bavaria

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• Villa Rustica at Großberghofen, Dachau
• de, Donau-Ries
• Villa Rustica at Hüssingen
• Villa Rustica Kohlhunden, Ostallgäu
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• Villa Rustica (Nassenfels), Eichstätt
• de, Freising
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• de, Ingolstadt
• Villa Rustica (Peiting), Weilheim-Schongau
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• de, Oberallgäu

Hesse

• Groß-Umstadt-Heubach, de
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• Rodau, Zwingenberg, "Kleine Weide"

Northrhine-Westphalia

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• Villae Rusticae at Eschweiler, Aachen
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• Villae Rusticae near Hambach surface mine, Düren
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Rheinland-Palatine

Ceiling painting at the Roman villa of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler

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• de, Bad Kreuznach
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• de, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm
• de, Fließem, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm
• Villa Rustica at Sarresdorf (Gerolstein)
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• Villa Rustica at Herschweiler-Pettersheim, Kusel
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• de, Mainz-Bingen
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Saarland

• Roman Villa Borg
• Reinheim
• Roman villa at Nennig

Boscoreale villa

Italy

• Villa Boscoreale

Portugal

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• Castelo da Lousa
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• Villa of Cerro da Vila

Switzerland

Aargau

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Basel-Landschaft

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Genf

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Jura

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Solothurn

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Waadt

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Zürich

• Irgenhausen Castrum (built on the remains of a former villa rustica)
• Villa in Wetzikon - Kempten
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Turkey

• Gökkale
• Üçayaklı ruins

United Kingdom

• Bignor Roman Villa
• Borough Hill Roman villa
• Brading Roman Villa
• Chedworth Roman Villa
• Crofton Roman Villa
• Fishbourne Roman Palace
• Gadebridge Park Roman Villa
• Littlecote Roman Villa
• Llantwit Major Roman Villa
• Low Ham Roman Villa
• Lullingstone Roman Villa
• Newport Roman Villa
• Piddington Roman Villa
• Woodchester Roman Villa

External links

• villa rustica - open-air museum at Hechingen (Germany)

• Annalia Marzano: Roman villas in central Italy: a social and economic history. Brill 2007, ISBN 978-90-04-16037-8 (restricted online copy at Google Books)
• Alfred Frazer: The Roman villa: villa urbana. UPenn Museum of Archaeology 1998, ISBN 978-0-924171-59-8 (restricted online copy at Google Books)
• Alexander Gordon McKay: Houses, villas, and palaces in the Roman world . JHU Press 1998, ISBN 978-0-8018-5904-5 (restricted online copy at Google Books)
• John T. Smith: Roman Villas. A Study in Social Structure. Routledge, London, 1997. ISBN 0-415-16719-1
• John Percival: The Roman Villa. A Historical Introduction. Batsford, London, 1988 (Paperback)
• Die Römer am Wolfartsberg. (Heimatblätter des Heimat- und Kulturvereines Haueneberstein e.V., Nr. 3). haueneberstein.de
• eigeltingia.de
• Gerhard Hoffmann: Spuren früher Zeiten – Funde und Fundstätten im Landkreis Rastatt. Eine Materialkunde zur Vor und Frühgeschichte. Bestandsaufnahme und Dokumentation. (Sonderveröffentlichungen des Kreisarchivs Rastatt, Band 5). Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher u. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-495-1. (Abstract)
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• ka.stadtwiki.net
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• muehlacker.de
• nagold.de
• naturparkschwarzwald.de
• archaeologie-bw.de
• denkmalpflege-bw.de
• kaluwi.de
• roemervilla-moeckenlohe.de
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• morgenweb.de
• roemervilla-blankenheim.de
• roscheiderhof.de
• kuseler-musikantenland.de