Villar De Domingo García
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Villar de Domingo García is a municipality located in the
province of Cuenca Cuenca () is one of the five provinces of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. It is located in the eastern part of this autonomous community and covers 17,141 square km. It has a population of 203,841 ...
, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004
census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
( INE), the municipality had a population of 271 inhabitants.


Roman villa

In the municipality are the remains of an important
Roman villa A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house in the territory of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions. Nevertheless, the term "Roman villa" generally covers buildings with the common ...
known in Spanish as the ''Villa romana de Noheda''. It dates to the
Late Antiquity Late antiquity marks the period that comes after the end of classical antiquity and stretches into the onset of the Early Middle Ages. Late antiquity as a period was popularized by Peter Brown (historian), Peter Brown in 1971, and this periodiza ...
and is notable for its
mosaics A mosaic () is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/Mortar (masonry), mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and ...
.See the contributions in: Panzram, Sabine; Arbeiter, Achim; Trunk, Markus; Teichner, Felix (eds) (2024). ''Noheda. Überschwang der Bilder und hispanisch-spätantike Villenkultur / La opulencia de las imágenes y las grandes "villae" de la Hispania tardoantigua.'' Hispanica selecta, vol. 1. Stuttgart: Steiner, . In June 2019 it was hoped to open the site to the public in the near future. (subscription required)


References

Municipalities in the Province of Cuenca {{Cuenca-geo-stub