Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, Italy

progress is when you invent the toothbrush - culture, when you use it ... today was about culture, so after brushing my teeth i visited a roman villa... the villa romana del casale is a late roman villa urbana near the city piazza armerina. it is an important monument of roman sicily and famous for its floor mosaics. in 1997, UNESCO declared it a world heritage site. the floor of almost all rooms of the property is covered with mosaics of colored tesserae, which in total cover an area of ​​around 3,500 m² and consist of around 120 million individual stones, more than in any other known building of the roman empire. especially i liked the arcade with the animal portraits, the “bikini girls” and the cyclop. now that i’m writing i can't really make up my mind because the elephants and the tigers ... in one of the bedrooms there are scenes depicting the robbery of women - that amazed me very much. in the outside area you can walk over the mosaic, that's a very strange feeling ... in the meantime i have really seen a lot of roman villas with mosaics but this one takes the cake... especially the good descriptions on the mosaics invite you to read and read and read...Read more