Els Munts (Roman villa)

[1] Scholars have regarded the villa of Els Munts as noteworthy for its mosaics[2] and exceptional state of preservation.

[3] As a part of Tarraco, the villa of Els Munts is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

In total the villa had a garden, semi-basement corridor with cistern for Caius Valerius Avitus, peristyle, water cistern known locally as "La Tartana", a more extensive water reservoir, dining room (triclinium), the Mithraeum—a temple dedicated to the god Mithras, porticoed corridor.

The Roman historian Livy mentions Tarraco in describing part of the origins of the Second Punic War.

[8] Approximately 12 kilometers from Tarraco, modern day Tarragona and near the mouth of the Gayá River, the villa of Els Munts sits atop the western slope of a coastal hill which is part of Cap Roig, the origin of which is the Miocene era.