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Roman villa of Valdetorres de Jarama

Valdetorres de Jarama, Cuenca del Medio Jarama, Madrid

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Roman villa of Valdetorres de Jarama

Nature · Valdetorres de Jarama, Cuenca del Medio Jarama, Madrid

Image of Valdetorres de Jarama, not of the place itself.

Late Imperial building with an octagonal plan discovered in 1977 and excavated between 1978 and 1982, interpreted as a mansio on a secondary road from Complutum. It yielded sculptures, ceramics and fragments of Egyptian ivory dated to around AD 337-361.

Photo: Tiia Monto (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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