Historische Stätte
Roman Painted House
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Standort
25 New St
Dover, England
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Open Monday to Saturday 10am until 4.30pm Closed Sundays Admission - Adults £4 Concessions £3 (children, students, pensioners)
Built around 200 CE, it formed part of a large mansion used as a hotel by travellers venturing across the English Channel. It's the finest surviving Roman Period House in England, with some 50 structures uncovered to date, including a number of unique painted walls. All told, some 400 square feet of frescoes have survived the centuries, along with an elaborate under-floor heating system. Also on display are a variety of interesting artifacts from Roman Dover, which at the time was known as "Dubris." A garden area is available for visitors to use as a picnic spot.
Built around 200 CE, it formed part of a large mansion used as a hotel by travellers venturing across the English Channel. It's the finest surviving Roman Period House in England, with some 50 structures uncovered to date, including a number of unique painted walls. All told, some 400 square feet of…
A crumbling 1960s bunker is the unlikely setting for some of the most extensive, if stunted, Roman wall paintings north of the Alps. Several scenes depict Bacchus (Roman god of wine and revelry), which makes perfect sense as this large villa was built around AD 200 as a mansio (hotel) for travellers needing a little lubrication to unwind.