Villa Romana del Tellaro

Floor mosaic with a geometric pattern

Floor mosaic with tiger

The Villa Romana del Tellaro is a Roman villa on the island of Sicily . It is located about nine kilometers south of Noto .

The villa was built in the second half of the 4th century around an approximately 20 × 20 m courtyard. The floor mosaics are very well preserved, some of which are similar to those of the Villa Romana del Casale , but are not that extensive. The following are particularly artistically designed:

• the hunting mosaic showing hunters hunting and the animals they have caught, and
• the Hector mosaic, which shows the scene in which Hector's body is weighed in gold.

literature

• Klaus Gallas : Sicily . Edition Erde in BW Verlag, Nuremberg 1992, ISBN 3-8214-6518-2 .

Web links

Commons : Villa del Tellaro (Noto)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website with pictures ( in Italian )

Coordinates: 36 ° 50 ′ 8 "  N , 15 ° 4 ′ 43"  E