New 900square metres roman villa found

Near the village of San Angelo in vado a roman villa has been found

the villa is about 900 square metres with 600 square metres of mosaics

Unluckily there is no money to restore the villa

The Reid wrote:
> Following up to "tile" <supertile@libero.it> wrote:
>
>> Unluckily there is no money to restore the villa
>
> I thought you said it was "new"? :-)
>
> Seriously, pity it wont be looked after.

the discovery is new. and apparently the villa belonged to a rich man whose
money came from Timber..
he was the owner of woods of trees that were used to build most of the
houses in Rome.

It is unbelievable that such things are still underground.

It was discovered thanks to photos taken froma plane

the mosaics are beautiful and very well preserved.
I cannot believe that there is no money for such things

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:21:58 GMT, "a.spencer3" <a.spencer3@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>
>"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
>news:bsj9a3psgtrbovpch01unjn90dph6uq67r@.. .
>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:51:09 GMT, "a.spencer3" <a.spencer3@ntlworld.com>
>wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"tile" <supertile@libero.it> wrote in message
>> >news:iE2pi.73297$U01.679007@twister1.libero.it. ..
>> >> The Reid wrote:
>> >> > Following up to "tile" <supertile@libero.it> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Unluckily there is no money to restore the villa
>> >> >
>> >> > I thought you said it was "new"? :-)
>> >> >
>> >> > Seriously, pity it wont be looked after.
>> >>
>> >> the discovery is new. and apparently the villa belonged to a rich man
>> >whose
>> >> money came from Timber..
>> >> he was the owner of woods of trees that were used to build most of the
>> >> houses in Rome.
>> >>
>> >> It is unbelievable that such things are still underground.
>> >>
>> >> It was discovered thanks to photos taken froma plane
>> >>
>> >> the mosaics are beautiful and very well preserved.
>> >> I cannot believe that there is no money for such things
>> >>
>> >>
>> >In Turkey, especially the east, one can walk through so many ancient city
>> >sites, with 'stuff' all over the grounds. They haven't the resources even
>to
>> >basically prepare them.
>>
>> Worse still is that carvings etc. are being damaged. I have a book about
>> antiquities in the Antalya/Alanya area of Turkey published in 1957 with
>photos
>> showing sculptures intact which now have bits knocked off them.
>> --
>
>And nicked - in both senses!

It was mainly missing noses on faces that I noticed
--

Martin

In article <9P%oi.71939$%k.212181@twister2.libero.it>,
"tile" <supertile@libero.it> wrote:

> Near the village of San Angelo in vado a roman villa has been found
>
> the villa is about 900 square metres with 600 square metres of mosaics
>
> Unluckily there is no money to restore the villa

Where does the money to do restorations typically come from?

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:55:23 -0700, poldy <poldy@kfu.com> wrote:

>In article <9P%oi.71939$%k.212181@twister2.libero.it>,
> "tile" <supertile@libero.it> wrote:
>
>> Near the village of San Angelo in vado a roman villa has been found
>>
>> the villa is about 900 square metres with 600 square metres of mosaics
>>
>> Unluckily there is no money to restore the villa
>
>Where does the money to do restorations typically come from?

The tax payer, directly or indirectly.
--

Martin

In article <ft0ea3h86fljrjckg95mif3mtgtprl4orj@>,
Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:55:23 -0700, poldy <poldy@kfu.com> wrote:
>
> >In article <9P%oi.71939$%k.212181@twister2.libero.it>,
> > "tile" <supertile@libero.it> wrote:
> >
> >> Near the village of San Angelo in vado a roman villa has been found
> >>
> >> the villa is about 900 square metres with 600 square metres of mosaics
> >>
> >> Unluckily there is no money to restore the villa
> >
> >Where does the money to do restorations typically come from?
>
> The tax payer, directly or indirectly.

What about hotel taxes?

Or the tariffs they charge for museums, churches, etc?