MELITHA BLASCO
Villa del Casale: World Heritage Site
The Villa del Casale is in the middle of the island of Sicily, and has been declared a World Heritage Site in the year 1997. It held up well through the mud that covered after an earthquake and today you will see teams of anthropologists with their faces covered with masks, trying to clean some of the 24,000 tiles that adorn its different rooms. The area of the bathroom, with its Trepidarium, massage and steam baths, exercise room, etc.. All the walls are still standing, there are wonderful mosaics, from the cameras of the lords until the servants. Common life scenes and festivals adorn everything, hunting scenes with wild animals, such as bears see on walls and especially on floors.
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