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Altos de Chavón. Altos de Chavón is a tourist attraction, a re-creation of a 16th-century Mediterranean–style village, located atop the Chavón River in the city of La Romana, Dominican Republic. [ 1 ] It is the most popular attraction in the city and hosts a cultural center, an archeological museum, and an amphitheater.
Retrieved 2019-01-25. The Insula dell'Ara Coeli is a part of an extensive archaeological area situated on the western slopes of the Capitol that was exposed though demolition work carried out between 1929 and 1933. On that occasion an entire section of the city, mainly comprising of Renaissance structures and churches, was dismantled to reveal ...
Designated. 24 July 1969. Reference no. RI-51-0003815. Casa Batlló ( Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkazə βəˈʎːo]) is a building in the center of Barcelona, Spain. It was designed by Antoni Gaudí, and is considered one of his masterpieces. A remodel of a previously built house, it was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí and has been refurbished ...
Insula. (building) In Roman architecture, an insula ( Latin for "island", pl.: insulae) was one of two things: either a kind of apartment building, or a city block. [ 1][ 2][ 3] This article deals with the former definition, that of a type of apartment building. Insulae housed most of the urban citizen population of ancient Rome 's massive ...
The House of the Tragic Poet (also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House) is a Roman house in Pompeii, Italy dating to the 2nd century BCE. The house is famous for its elaborate mosaic floors and frescoes depicting scenes from Greek mythology . Discovered in November 1824 by the archaeologist Antonio Bonucci, the House of the Tragic ...
The Toledo School of Translators ( Spanish: Escuela de Traductores de Toledo) is the group of scholars who worked together in the city of Toledo during the 12th and 13th centuries, to translate many of the Islamic philosophy and scientific works from Classical Arabic into Medieval Latin . The School went through two distinct periods separated ...
Domus. In ancient Rome, the domus ( pl.: domūs, genitive: domūs or domī) was the type of town house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen during the Republican and Imperial eras. [ 1] It was found in almost all the major cities throughout the Roman territories. The modern English word domestic comes from Latin domesticus ...
Villa rustica ( transl. farmhouse or countryside villa) was the term used by the ancient Romans [ 1][ 2] 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.