Villa Regina in Boscoreale reopens to the public, following the completion of safety and restoration work, and the Campania by night evening itineraries are inaugurated for the first time with a guided tour of the Villa.
On Thursday 19 September at 18,30:XNUMX pm, the General Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Massimo Osanna, will inaugurate the reopening of the Villa and illustrate the interventions carried out, which included the arrangement and restoration of the roofs, as well as conservative interventions to clean the decorative apparatus. General Mauro Cipolletta, General Director of the Great Pompeii Project, will intervene to offer a greeting.
On this occasion, the evening guided tours will begin, as part of the Campania by night program, a project for the enhancement and promotion of the region's cultural heritage promoted by the Campania Region, conceived and curated by Scabec. The vice president of Scabec, Teresa Armato, will be present for the inauguration of the tours.
The visits scheduled every Thursday, from 19 to 24 October starting at 19 pm, include a guided evening tour of the Villa and the Antiquarium of Boscoreale which collects finds and testimonies on daily life and the Vesuvian environment in Roman times, including the two rooms on the upper floor, which host the exhibition on the protohistoric village of Longola. The itinerary ends in the Villa with artistic and musical performances by the “Progetto Sonora”
All information on costs, times and reservations on www.campaniabynight.it
Access to the Villa and the Antiquarium will also be possible on Friday and Saturday evenings, from 20,30:23 pm to 22,45 pm (last admission until 12:2 pm) until October XNUMX, at a cost of €XNUMX, as part of the enhancement projects of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism.
Villa Regina is the only rustic villa that can be visited entirely among the many farms specialized in agricultural production present in the Pompeii area. It was discovered in 1977, following construction work, and then brought to light with careful excavation campaigns concluded in 1980.
It is composed of various rooms arranged on the three sides of an open courtyard that houses the wine cellar with eighteen dolia (jars for storing wine). The main activity was in fact the production of wine.
In the villa, some casts of the wooden frames of doors and windows are preserved. The valuable rooms of the Villa, in addition to the large portico, the torcularium with the casts of the wooden press and the holes and wells for anchoring it to the ground, the pressing basin and the container for collecting the must; include the triclinium, with walls decorated with paintings attributed to the transition phase between the third and fourth styles; the kitchen, out of use at the time of the eruption, with a brick oven and hearth in the center of the room, a service room with the water cistern, surmounted by a clay vase; the granary for storing hay, cereals and legumes, adjacent to the open farmyard.
The villa, which also had an upper floor, can be dated in its original layout to the 1st century BC and was expanded in at least two successive phases in the Augustan and Julio-Claudian ages. In the portico, during the excavation, clear traces were found in the ground, in a small street adjacent to the villa, of grooves left by the wheels of a transport wagon (plaustrum).
The floor level of the area surrounding the villa is made up of agricultural land from 79 AD, which preserves traces of ancient cultivations and of which casts of the vine roots have been made. Next to them, vines have been replanted for the demonstrative reconstruction of the vineyard layout.
Along the walls of the excavation the stratigraphy of the ground clearly shows the succession of deposits of pyroclastic material determined by the eruption of 79 AD which caused the destruction of the small farm.
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