Piazza Armerina
The modern town lies 721 m above sea level. The fertile territory has been inhabited since the 8C – 7C BC, from the Greek age to the Roman and byzantine ages and throughout the Middle Ages.
The Roman Imperial Villa del Casale
The groups of buildings which make up the Villa are the most notable archeological testimonies of Roman Sicily. The house, situated in the fertile valley of the River Gela, was build between the end of the 3C and the early 4C AD in the middle of a vast rural latifundium. The villa enjoyed its maximum splendour from the 4C to the 5C AD. The latifundium consisted of a rural village and of a number of “mansiones” (farms) where slaves and “procuratores” (procurators) apllied themselves to exploiting the fertile land. The rooms, peristyles, arcaded courtyards and thermae are extremely interesting to visit for the splendid and incomprable series of figured and ornamental mosaics entirely covering the floors of the buildings. 
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