In Roman times Terzigno was an rural outlying suburb of Pompeii in which numerous aristocratic and rustic country villas were located and which were all buried and preserved beneath many metres of volcanic debris by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

[5] Villa 6 is remarkable for its enormous and refined Second Style frescoes from a dining room representing mythological figures including Cybele and Attis as well as Paris and Helen at various ages.

[6] In its last phase an agricultural part of the complex was added focussed on a winery with a large threshing floor and a columned portico, adjacent lever press (torcularium) and dolia in a wine cellar.

Villa 1 of the 1st quarter of the 1st c. BC was in a particularly elegant residential neighbourhood but had a large wine cellar raised above ground level with 42 dolia and an area used for fodder storage and a threshing floor.

[8] Villa 2 of the late 2nd to early 1st century BC similarly had renovation work in progress and had a central courtyard with portico supported by brick pillars and columns on three sides.