The Aubechies Archeosite - Presentation

Villa

Villa’s appear in Gaul during the second half of the 1st century A.D. The Gallo-Roman villa is first a foremost an agricultural estate adapted to a local economy based mainly upon the agricultural sector. It ‘s the favourite tool for agricultural production and commercial exchanges, but it also reflects a certain form of elitism translated by a Mediterranean way of life and it differs basically from the proto-historical type of
housing.

The original villa was discovered in Mainz (Germany, Rheinland-Pfalz). This well documented building has a typical plan with a façade gallery. Such model was quite common in northern Gaul, the British Isles and Germany.

The villa reconstituted in Aubechies is divided into an oecus (reception room) and several outbuildings.
The various rooms are decorated with frescos and mosaics and they are furnished with true reproductions
of period furniture. While visiting the villa, you’ll have the opportunity to hear about architecture, everyday
life on the country, society organisation, agriculture, crafts, commercial exchanges, and so on.

The reconstituted villa is integrated into a new tour that also includes the necropolis and the temple (fanum)