Fuengirola +HISTORIA

Third point of interest: Archaeological site Villa Romana Finca del Secretario

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It is an archaeological complex with a life that would develop, according to the data that we know today, between the 1st and 6th centuries AD. C. The enclave would revolve around a villa in whose residential area we only know, so far, a few hot springs. This building was accessed through a monumental staircase that conserved remains of parietal paintings, and that converged in a distributor patio, arcaded (the bases of its twelve columns are preserved) and paved with a polychrome mosaic with geometric motifs.
Among its facilities it had two fountains, one of them in the shape of an apse that was decorated with a parietal mosaic delimited by seashells, as well as two swimming pools that in one of the cases was covered with marble while in the other it was covered with opus signinum, next to a possible latrine with a floor of this same material to which a small channel through which the water flowed was attached. The heated area had four rooms, one of which had two bathtubs, in addition to having two ovens delimited by walls intended to provide heat to the baths, a complex that also had a circular pool with seats in its corners and a storage tank. waters from which a channel used to lead the water to the thermal complex.
Regarding the industrial part of the enclave, it is worth mentioning the presence of a pottery made up of five ceramic kilns, four of which, precisely the largest ones, had a chamber that showed a central pillar. Next to these ovens were two landfill areas and a salting factory made up of a battery of eight pools and two adjoining rooms.