The Italica floor
The Roman city's mosaics laid room by room.
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It completes, not replaces: the site (9 km out) gives the vast amphitheatre and context; this gives mosaics preserved as if yesterday. Roman devotees do both — quick tasters find here the air-conditioned digest.
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The Lebrija palace houses Seville's strangest passion: the antiquity-loving Countess Regina turned her early-1900s home into Europe's finest floor — complete Roman mosaics from nearby Italica paving her halls and courtyards, till it was called the best-mosaicked house on earth. Above the Roman floors coil Mudéjar plasterwork, azulejos and Castilian timber ceilings — the Sevillian strata digested in one house — while the guided upper floor shows her library and collections as she lived among them. On the shopping street of Cuna, steps from the Setas, it is the elegant least-famous of the city's palaces — for mosaic lovers specifically, without substitute.
The Roman city's mosaics laid room by room.
Rome below, Mudéjar around, timber above — history in cross-section.
Calle Cuna 8, 41004 Seville