Abstract:

Study of the excavations carried out in the interconnecting courtyard with a central fountain, corridor and room 3 of the Roman villa of Torre Llauder, providing a stratigraphic sequence and new information in terms of interpretation and chronology. The villa’s evolution is reconstructed, taking into account all the chronological and construction details from a study of the artifacts and their significance. The conclusion reached is that the earliest construction was a pottery workshop which must have been destroyed towards the end of the 1st century BC and relocated to somewhere else in the Roman villa or the fundus. This was followed by the first wealthy residential villa built towards the end of the 1st century BC, then a second wealthy residential villa built during the Flavian period, then reforms in the mid-3rd century in which the reception apartment take on the form we know today and the mosaics are laid, and then a final phase of ruralisation.