A luxury Roman villa in the middle of Sicily, buried by a medieval landslide and preserved because of it, floor after floor of the finest Roman mosaics anywhere. Forty rooms carpeted in colour: a great hunt stretching sixty metres, wild animals shipped from Africa, and, famously, girls exercising in what look exactly like bikinis. Probably built around AD 320 for someone very rich, perhaps an imperial official. The mud that ruined it also sealed it, and today you walk above the mosaics on raised paths, looking down into a vanished way of life.
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