Une bande de fer attachée à un aubeur aide à stabiliser ce fragment d'une ancienne tour au milieu des ruines de la Grotte di Catullo, une villa romaine à Sirmione sur la péninsule de Sirmio, un promontoire à l'extrémité sud du lac de Garde en Lombardie, Italie.
2000 x 3008 px | 16,9 x 25,5 cm | 6,7 x 10 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
12 juillet 2006
Lieu:
Grotte di Catullo or Grottoes of Catullus, Sirmione, Lake Garda, Lombardy, Italy
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Sirmione, Lake Garda, Lombardy, Italy: the Grotte di Catullo, on the headland tip of the Sirmio peninsula, a 3.5km promontory into Lake Garda at its southern end. The Grotte di Catullo or Grottoes of Catullus are the ruins of a large Roman villa or country house, built around the end of the 1st century BCE, lying amid olive groves. There are vast substructures built to sustain the main buildings, with a number of huge cisterns and thermal buildings in a long colonnaded terrace. Virtually nothing is left of the villa itself because it was used as a quarry for building stones. The poet Catullus (c. 84 BCE - 54 BCE) was born in Verona and he did spend time at his family’s villa at Sirmione. However, the Grotte di Catullo villa was probably built after Catullus died and, in any event, was far too opulent a property to have been affordable to him or his family. The Grotte di Catullo villa possibly belonged originally to Gens Valeria, an aristocratic family from Verona, and then perhaps to Gaius Herennius Caecilia, quaestor of the Gallia Narbonensis, member of the Roman Senate and patron of Verona. The degradation of the villa began in the 200s CE and, in the 400s CE, the complex became part of defence structures built at the northern end of the Sirmio peninsula. D0140.A1669
