Where | Cavo - Capo Castello |
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Info | The villa is currently not visitable as it is private property and incorporated into a new construction. |
The Roman Villa of Capo Castello is located in Cavo and gives its name to the promontory that separates the Frugoso Beach (or Capo Castello Beach) from Cala delle Alghe.
It was probably built between the 1st century BC and the mid-1st century AD, contemporary to many other villas on the Tuscan islands, including the Villa Romana delle Grotte and the Villa Romana della Linguella in Portoferraio.
The villa is situated in a panoramic location, offering a stunning view of the sea and the entire Tyrrhenian coast.
Structurally, the villa had a rectangular plan with rooms mainly built using "opus reticulatum" (a construction technique that gave the wall an appearance of a net pattern on the outside), characterized by buildings placed on six terraces sloping down toward the sea in all four directions: north, south, east, and west.
The large building, surrounded on three sides by gardens with flower beds, evergreens, statues, and fountains, was likely composed of typical Roman villa parts and featured marble floors in rich and varied forms, often mosaic, while the walls were richly decorated.
On the highest terrace, the residential core was built, of which only the remains of the perimeter wall and cistern remain today, while the two terraces below were designated for the garden, as there are no internal masonry structures in them.
On the even lower terraces stood the core of the noble house, where the remains of rooms can be found, including mosaic floors and the remains of a staircase. Unfortunately, this part of the villa is mostly difficult to see due to damages caused by modern structures.
In the surroundings of the villa, there were other structures that were part of the complex: a building on Capo di Mattea, which was probably the servants' house, and the cistern of Colle del Lentisco, which is also not visitable as it is private property and incorporated into a new construction.
Several archaeological finds have been discovered inside the villa and are displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Portoferraio, including: a decorative terracotta slab with a gorgoneion, a small bronze sculpture with the inscription "kronos", a fragment of a marble capital decorated with acanthus leaves and opposing volutes, fragmentary oil lamps, brick stamps, and a vase.
At the Archaeological Museum of the Rio nell'Elba Mining District, a basin with the related pipes is preserved, which was part of the system of basins and pipes for the aqueduct that supplied water to the cistern for the villa.
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