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ID: 7003953
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7003953
Record Type:
administrative
Villa Romana del Casale (ruins)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 22 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.3667
decimal degrees
Long: 014 20 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 14.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
Was a Roman villa of Late Empire; noted as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Roman Sicily; famous for its mosaics; named an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Names:
Villa Romana del Casale
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Casale
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
Italy
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sicily
(region (administrative division)) (
P,
C
)
part of unified Italy from 1861
................
Enna
(province) (
P
)
....................
Villa Romana del Casale
(ruins) (
P
)
Place Types:
ruins (
preferred
,
C
)
............
constructed during Late Empire
archaeological site (
C
)
villa (
H
)
World Heritage Site (
C
)
............
since 1997
Sources and Contributors:
Casale..........
[
GRLPSC
]
.................
Blue Guide: Sicily (1981)
Villa Romana del Casale..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.........................................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
710-711
.........................................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-185
.........................................
TCI: Sicilia (1968)
509-513
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Blue Guide: Sicily (1981)
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
710-711
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-185
..................
TCI: Sicilia (1968)
509-513
..................
UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-)
accessed 22 July 2010
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-)
accessed 22 July 2010
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