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## International experts analyse the protection and functionality of Roman maritime villas at a Universitat Jaume I seminar

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The Universitat Jaume I has held the second international seminar on Roman maritime villas entitled "Between land and sea. *Villae maritimae* and the protection and safeguarding of coastal archaeological heritage". The scientific meeting of European and local experts took place on 15 and 16 December and was funded by the Generalitat Valenciana.

This year, the international seminar focused on analysing the functionality of maritime villas and their relationship with inland areas, on the one hand, and on the protection and safeguarding of coastal archaeological sites, particularly this type of villa, on the other. For this reason, the inauguration included a conference entitled "Beyond the sea... agricultural production in maritime villas" by Yolanda Peña Cervantes (UNED).

A villa in Roman times was a group of buildings that acted as the headquarters and management centre of a farm. The maritime villas, located on the coast, served as spaces for recreation and summer relaxation and exploited agricultural and fishing resources. Thus, the construction of villas by the sea represents a significant change in the landscape of the Mediterranean coastline.

The adaptation and, in some cases, alteration of the coastline becomes evident when studying the remains of the large villas in central and southern Italy, where it is common to observe artificial cliff cuts, breakwaters placed at a certain distance from the coast, docks, mooring areas and large fish ponds. In fact, aquaculture was an exponent of the luxury of the owners of the Republican and early Roman-Imperial periods.

Despite numerous archaeological problems, such as poor preservation and the urbanisation of the Mediterranean coastline, excavations in recent years have provided a great deal of information on the maritime villas, the nature of these establishments and their productive specialisation: exploitation of marine resources, fishing and aquaculture, agriculture, etc. Recent research therefore allows us to look at the concept of maritime villa from other perspectives, hence the interest in holding this international seminar.

This initiative of the Department of Ancient History and the research group Antiqua: Ancient History and Archaeology of the UJI has been organised with the collaboration of the Università di Macerata (Italy), the Archaeological Museum of Burriana, the Archaeological and Prehistoric Research Service of the Provincial Council of Castelló and the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Institute of Catalan Studies).  
  
The meeting of scientists promoted by the UJI research team ended with a visit to the Roman remains in the town of Sagunto. In this town, Giulia Baratta (Università di Macerata) and Marc Mayer (Universitat de Barcelona) and Josep Benedito (Universitat Jaume I) carried out a excursion/lecture "Sagunto in situ: commenting on the reality of a myth".

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