Roman Kilns

28/11/2021 10:00 a.m.
Roman Kilns
In Lonato - after many years of restoration campaigns - is opened to the public one of the six Roman's bricks and tiles kilns discovered in 1985.
 
The visit allows you to immerse yourself in the Roman period and to know the Lake Garda: the Benacus of the first century AD.
In this period the aristocratic families of the city of Brescia and Verona elected it for their “otia”, their stays, and here they built luxurious villas along its shores, such as Sirmione, Desenzano and Toscolano, giving the way to the establishment of numerous rustic villas, i.e. the farms of the time, scattered along the hills surrounding the southern part of the lake, often in a scenic location.
So the need of building materials rose, and the industrial area of ​​the Roman furnaces in Lonato, the only discovered so far on the Garda, active during the first and the second centuries AD, served surely about this: not only to provide the materials for building homes, villas, houses of worship, but also for the necessary infrastructures.
 
 
Tickets:
 
Full price: 2 €
Reduced: 1 €
(children under the age of 14 years and over 65, visitors with the ticket of the monumental complex of the Ugo Da Como Foundation)




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