Il cortile e sala di rappresentanza

A large courtyard, still partly unexplored, characterized the center of the villa. It was bordered to the south by a long porch with pillars that presented on the floor a multicolored mosaic with geometric patterns. On the western side it was connected by a brick staircase to a raised porch, characterized by a cocciopesto floor (earthenware floor) with marble inserts. From here you could access a room of quadrangular shape, probably used as a representation. On its floor stands a rich polychrome mosaic with three pairs of eight-pointed stars. Each pair consists of two intersecting squares, delimited by two-stranded braids. At the centre of the stars are circles bounded by a wave pattern, within which there are six different stylized plant motifs.