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The Villa in Commugny
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In
the village of Commugny, about 8 km from Nyon, on the road to Geneva,
a luxurious villa occupied the site where the Church, cemetery, parsonage
and its garden are built today. The house was built on broad terraces,
with a splendid vue of the lake and Alps beyond. It is noted for the
exceptional wall paintings which were still vivid when they were first
uncovered in 1904.
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The
villa was built before the middle of the 1st century AD, and probably
destroyed in the 3rd.
Click here to find out more about the history of the area. |
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| Move your mouse over this photo to see a detail of the garland | Fragments
and studies of the wall paintings from the villa are in the Roman Museum
in Nyon. Click here to learn more about wall paintings. |
This photo shows a drawing made in 1904 of one of the frescos found during the first organized archaeological investigations of the villa. Click here to learn more about the history of archaeology in the Canton of Vaud. |
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Left: Al ayer of gold leaf was used in the wall painting at the villa, as well as rare and expensive colors (Egyptian blue and cinnabar). Click here to learn more about the periods of Roman wall paintings |
Right: This artists conception (1995) shows one of the wall paintings as it might have looked when it was new in 35 - 45 AD, and can be seen in the Roman Museum in Nyon |
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Three of the ceramic pieces found in Commugny, on display in the Nyon Roman Museum. 2nd - 3rd centuries. |
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| This plan shows the present Church and Parsonage over the known details of the villa. . |
The Roman villa in Colombier (NE), which was also built on a terraced setting, gives us an idea of how large the estate of a very wealthy Roman could be. This model is in the Laténium in Neuchâtel. Click
on the picture to learn more (in French) about the Colombier villa |
A key found in the excavation of the villa.
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to learn about the Roman villa in http://www.orbe.ch/histoire/bos.htm |
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This page was updated on 24 April, 2004 by K. Epps
Unless
otherwise mentioned, all photos are by Katharine Epps.
Sauf mention contraire les photos sont de Katharine Epps
nyon@isg-online.org
