page_title: Stabiae
section_title: Villas
hierarchical_section_title: Stabiae / Villas
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context_page_description: Stabiae was an ancient city situated near the modern town of Castellammare di Stabia and approximately 4.5 km southwest of Pompeii. Like Pompeii, and being only 16 kilometres from Mount Vesuvius, this seaside resort was largely buried by tephra ash in 79 AD, in this case at a smaller depth of up to five metres.
  Stabiae is most famous for the Roman villas found there which have provided some of the most stunning architectural and artistic remains from any Roman villas. They were the largest concentration of excellently preserved, enormous, elite seaside villas in the entire Roman world. The villas were sited on a 50 m high headland overlooking the Gulf of Naples. However, unlike Pompeii and Herculaneum, Stabiae was reburied by 1782 and so failed to establish itself as a destination for travellers on the Grand Tour and subsequently has unjustifiably been in their shadow.
  Many of the objects and frescoes taken from these villas are now in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
context_section_description: Among the many villas found at Stabiae are firstly large leisure villas (villa otium) without agricultural buildings such as:
  Villa San Marco
  Villa Arianna
  the Second Complex,
  Villa del Pastore
  Villa del Fauno (or of Anteros and Heracles)
  and secondly residential villas with agricultural sections (villa rustica) such as:
  Villa del Petraro
  Villa Carmiano (Villas A and B)
  Villa Sant'Antonio Abate
  Villa Medici
  Villa del Filosofo (of the Philosopher)
  Villa Marchetti
  Villa detto Carmiano in Masseria Buonodono
  Villa Petrellune
  Villas in Ogliaro
  Casa dei Miri
  Villa Sassole
caption: Atrium, Villa San Marco
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