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The House of Centenary

Regio IX   Insula 8.3-6
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This large house, built in the 2nd century B.C. and restructured during the Imperial age, opens onto Via di Nola and consists of a double Tuscan Atrium and a Peristyle with a double order of columns at the front. The house was given this name as it was discovered in 1879, the year of the eighteenth centenary of the eruption which completely buried Pompeii.

It is divided into two sections: the main house, for the master's family, and the servants' quarters, with a separate entrance from a side street. In line with tradition it has a private bath-house and swimming pool. There is also a particularly beautiful nymphaeum with a fountain situated at the rear of the Peristyle, and a bed chamber in the eastern section of the house which is decorated with two highly detailed erotic frescoes.

The famous Fresco depicting Mount Vesuvius resplendent with woods and vineyards comes from the Lararium in the secondary Atrium and is now housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

This large house, built in the 2nd century B.C. and restructured during the Imperial age, opens onto Via di Nola and consists of a double Tuscan Atrium and a Peristyle with a double order of columns at the front. The house was given this name as it was discovered in 1879, the year of the eighteenth centenary of the eruption which completely buried Pompeii.

It is divided into two sections: the main house, for the master's family, and the servants' quarters, with a separate entrance from a side street. In line with tradition it has a private bath-house and swimming pool. There is also a particularly beautiful nymphaeum with a fountain situated at the rear of the Peristyle, and a bed chamber in the eastern section of the house which is decorated with two highly detailed erotic frescoes.

The famous Fresco depicting Mount Vesuvius resplendent with woods and vineyards comes from the Lararium in the secondary Atrium and is now housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

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