The 'Villa romana del Casale'

About two miles far from the center of the city, taking the public road that links Barrafranca to Piazza Armerina, the most extraordinary example of the great Roman architecture stands. The Villa Romana del Casale and its splendid mosaics. A monument for which the city earned archaeological fame all over the world and that it constitutes an unique testimony of the tastes and the habits of the Roman period. The Villa goes up again to the beginning of the IV century and is divided in three great complexes of salt, courtyards, thermal baths and peristyles. The most important element of the complex is without doubt constituted by the mosaics floor: with an extension (around 3.500 square meters) and a variety without equal in the world. Mosaics representative the four seasons are particularly interesting, the Circo Massimo, the Fatiche di Ercole and the famous Ragazze in Bikini; but also other scenes like those of the hunting and fishing reach moments of sublime mosaic art.