Domvs Romana
Roman townhouse ruins with fine Hellenistic mosaics, a Doric courtyard and imperial marble portraits.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Domvs Romana in Rabat, just outside Mdina, follows a single picture laid in a courtyard floor: birds gathered at a bowl of water, a motif a Greek artist from Pergamon made famous and Roman patrons copied. It touches Pliny the Elder, the rain that once fell into the house's open heart, and the February day in eighteen eighty-one when a labourer's spade found the floor. Stand at the colonnaded courtyard and look to its centre.
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