Villa rustica

Villa rustica () was the term used by the ancient Romans to denote a farmhouse or villa set in the countryside and with an agricultural section, which applies to the vast majority of Roman villas. In some cases they were at the centre of a large agricultural estate, sometimes called a latifundium. The adjective rustica was used only to distinguish it from a much rarer sub-urban resort villa, or otium villa built for purely leisure and luxury, and typically located in the Bay of Naples. The villa rustica would thus serve both as a residence of the landowner and his family (and servants) and also as a farm management centre. It would often comprise separate buildings to accommodate farm labourers and sheds and barns for animals and crops.

The villa rustica's design differed, but usually it consisted of two parts; the pars urbana (main house), and the pars rustica (farm area).

List of villae rusticae

Austria

• , Altheim, Austria

Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Mogorjelo

Bulgaria

• Villa Armira, Ivaylovgrad

Italy

• Villa Boscoreale

• Villa dei Volusii, Fiano Romano

Portugal

• Castelo da Lousa
• Roman Villa of Rabaçal
• Roman ruins of Quinta da Abicada
• Centum Cellas
• Villa of Torre de Palma
• Villa of Cerro da Vila
• Roman ruins of Pisões
• Roman ruins of São Cucufate
• Roman Ruins of Milreu (Estoi)
• Roman Villa of Sendim

Turkey

• Gökkale
• Üçayaklı ruins

United Kingdom

• Bignor Roman Villa
• Borough Hill Roman villa
• Brading Roman Villa
• Chedworth Roman Villa
• Crofton Roman Villa
• Fishbourne Roman Palace
• Gadebridge Park Roman Villa
• Littlecote Roman Villa
• Llantwit Major Roman Villa
• Low Ham Roman Villa
• Lullingstone Roman Villa
• Newport Roman Villa
• North Leigh Roman Villa
• Piddington Roman Villa
• Woodchester Roman Villa

France

• Villa Rustica, Coustaty
• Montmaurin

Germany

Baden-Württemberg

• Villa Rustica, Baden-Baden-Haueneberstein, Roman settlement at Wohlfahrtsberg
• Villa Rustica at Bondorf, Böblingen
• , Konstanz
• , Lörrach
• Villa Rustica at Eigeltingen
• Villa Rustica at Gaggenau-Bad Rotenfels / Oberweier
• Villa urbana at Grenzach-Wyhlen (Museum Römervilla)
• , Zollernalbkreis
• Villa urbana at Heitersheim
• , Sigmaringen
• Villa Rustica at Hirschberg
• , Sigmaringen
• Villa Rustica at Karlsruhe-Durlach
• Villa Rustica at Langenau
• , Sigmaringen
• , Heilbronn
• Villa Rustica at Mühlacker
• Villa Rustica at Nagold
• Villa Rustica at Oberndorf-Bochingen
• , Rems-Murr-Kreis
• , Heilbronn
• , Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
• , Tuttlingen
• , Heilbronn
• Villa Rustica Bietigheim-Weilerlen at Bietigheim-Bissingen, Ludwigsburg

Bavaria

• , Stadt München
• Villa Rustica at Großberghofen, Dachau
• , Donau-Ries
• Villa Rustica at Hüssingen
• Villa Rustica Kohlhunden, Ostallgäu
• , Stadt Starnberg
• (Naturpark Altmühltal)
• Villa Rustica (Nassenfels), Eichstätt
• , Freising
• , Ingolstadt
• Villa Rustica (Peiting), Weilheim-Schongau
• , Oberallgäu

Hesse

• Groß-Umstadt-Heubach,
• , Odenwald
• Rodau, Zwingenberg, "Kleine Weide"

Northrhine-Westphalia

• Villae Rusticae at Eschweiler, Aachen
• , Eschweiler, Aachen
• Villae Rusticae near Hambach surface mine, Düren
• at Sollig, Nettersheim-Roderath, Euskirchen

Rheinland-Palatine

• , Bad Dürkheim-Ungstein
• , Bad Kreuznach
• , Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm
• , Fließem, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm
• Villa Rustica at Sarresdorf (Gerolstein)
• , Mainz-Bingen
• Villa Rustica at Herschweiler-Pettersheim, Kusel
• (Mosel), Trier-Saarburg
• , Mainz-Bingen
• , Trier-Saarburg

Saarland

• Roman Villa Borg
• Reinheim
• Roman villa at Nennig

Serbia

• Village Gornja Bukovica.Valjevo, villa rustica IV century A.D.

Switzerland

Aargau

Basel-Landschaft

Genf

Jura

Solothurn

Waadt

Zürich

• Irgenhausen Castrum (built on the remains of a former villa rustica)
• Villa in Wetzikon - Kempten

References

External links

• Villa Rustica - open-air museum at Hechingen (Germany)