Villa de La Olmeda

Today: Villa romana La Olmeda, Pedrosa de la Vega

Place: La Olmeda (Pedrosa de la Vega)
Kind: Villa
Built: 4th century
What remains: Site or museum
Visiting: Open to visit · In situ

The owner's house of the 4th century villa, square in plan, with towers at its four corners and a courtyard at the centre, joined by a corridor to baths with a frigidarium, tepidarium and caldarium. Its mosaics are among the most important in Spain: the one in the oecus shows a hunt, Achilles found out by Ulysses on Skyros, and a border of portraits and seasons. It was found in 1968, opened to the public in 1984, and since April 2009 has been visited under the building by Paredes and Pedrosa.

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