Villa di Tigellio

The complex, known as Villa Tigellio, indicates an archaeological site located at the foot of the hill of the Good Way, close to the Roman amphitheater. Its name originates from the incorrect belief that here was located the villa of the Sardinian musician, Tigellio Hermogenes, who lived in Rome for a few time and was a friend and acquaintance of Caesar, Octavian, Cicero and Horace. The area actually includes a residential area dating from the late first century BC-early first century AD, probably attended up to the sixth-seventh century AD, and is one of the most important Roman buildings of this type in Sardinia. There are the remains of a building of three houses and a tetrastyle atrium of therms (four columns with Ionic capitals that were placed at the four corners of the impluvium, and the thermal center for the collection of rain water).The two best preserved buildings are the "Home of the Painted of Tablinum", so named for the presence, in tablinum (the room next to the lobby), of the remains of a mosaic floors; and the "Home of the Stucco," which contains numerous fragments of decorations in this material. The walls are made with the so-called "technic to loom", widely in use in the punic age, characterized by the use of large vertical pillars arranged at a certain distance between them, and the filling of the intermediate wall sections with medium-small stones.