La Olmeda

[1] Long known as the provenance of chance finds, it was finally professionally excavated from 1968, and was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural, 3 April 1996.

It is open to the public, while a museum dedicated to the finds is housed in the nearby church of San Pedro de Saldaña.

[3][4] The villa complex centers on the elite quarters of rigorously symmetrical disposition, wherein twenty-seven rooms, twelve with mosaic floors, are disposed around a central patio crossed with mosaic paths in geometric patterns and linked round its perimeter by a wide peristyle.

This main building housed the poentior,[definition needed] with its oecus or reception hall, centered in the east wing featuring a particularly resplendent mosaic floor.

The complex also included working and living quarters of more rustic aspect, kilns for baking roof tiles on the site, three burial grounds, and a section of paved roadway.