A virtual visit to the roman villa Torre Llauder

Image processing and virtual reconstruction:
Ferran Bayés

Scientific advice:
Joan Francesc Clariana
Enric Juhé
Jaume Vellvehí
Marianna Perez-Sala
Kathryn Dunn

An initiative of

Grup d'Història del Casal
Mataró, 2001

Tell me, now, have I not good reason for living in, staying in, loving, such a retreat, which if you feel no appetite for, you must be morbidly attached to town? And I only wish you would feel inclined to come down to it, that to so many charms with which my little villa abounds, it might have the very considerable addition of your company to recommend it.
(Pliny the Younger. Letters.
Book II. 17)

The Roman villa Torre Llauder (Mataró, El Maresme) was built during the reign of the Emperor Augustus and went through significant transformations in later times. Most of the structures preserved can be dated from Severan times (late 2nd-early 3rd c. AD) and the virtual reconstruction shown here is based upon these.

It must be said from the start that we have only dealt with the stately or "urban" part of the villa (the so-called pars urbana). An attempt to reconstruct the area for agricultural works (pars rustica) would have been too tentative, as there is not enough evidence preserved.

You may start your visit by following the links at the end of each page of the screen or by directly accessing a chosen area by clicking on the general map shown above.