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La vil-la romana de Can Martí (Samalús, Vallès Oriental)

1990

Abstract

The preserved remains of the roman village of Can MartI (Samalds, Vallès Oriental) are situated on the lower part of a hill occupied by a small iberic settlement. Its distribution (atrium, tablinum and cubiculae) and its parietal decoration (paintings of the first pompeii style) as well as its mosaic decoration (flooring of opus tesellatum with a central emblem and opus signium with mosaic tile) let us confirm that we are in front os the urban part of a village, built according to the architectonic and decorative canons used towards the end of the second century B. C. or beginning of the first century B. C. in the itallic peninsula. So, we are talking about one of the first late roman republican villages studied in depth in the Hispania Citerioris Province, and demonstrates one more time, the transformation of the first stages of this territory, following the patterns of roman exploitation.