Aspectos constructivos y decorativos de la villa romana de Puente de la Olmilla (Albaladejo, Ciudad Real)

The construction of the villa follows the traditional Roman model: a number of rooms around a central courtyard that provides light, and the surrounding corridors that lead to these rooms. The corridors and certain rooms have mosaic surfaces (figurative mosaics in two of the rooms). Puente de la Olmilla had an arcade in the facade, which was an unusual combination in Roman Hispania. This villa is a clear proof of the deep Romanizing process that the rural area of this territory suffered. Its privileged and strategic geographical location in the southern plateau of the Iberian Peninsula was in fact one of the reasons why it was part of its road network.