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The Little Circus Villa

by Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti

VILLA OF THE LITTLE CIRCUS The second villa was the nearby one that I called the Little Circus. It rose on a high promontory two kilometers to the East of the Maritime Odeon overlooking the long, sandy and arched beaches set at its both sides. This once imposing residence had a 300 m front on the sea ... more


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BIOGRAPHY

 

ESPR In 1968, when she was already 46 year old, Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti, an architect who in 1946 graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the Roman University “the Sapienza, discovered a group of maritime villas built on a a series of promontory of the Lybian coast and dating from the II cent. She surveyed, studied and then published them in the “Atti della Pontificia Romana Accademia di Archeologia” and with this she began her work in the archaeological field... read more