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Roman Villas of Lake Garda and the Occurrence of Coloured Marbles in the Western Part of “Regio X Venetia et Histria” (Northern Italy)
Important remains of Roman villas are preserved on the shores of Lake Garda, in the western part of “Regio X” (now Brescia province, Lombardy): Toscolano Maderno, Desenzano, Faustinella, Nuvolento. Each villa was developed over several centuries (1st - 5th CE) and contains a lot of coloured marble fragments (slabs, listes etc.), mainly coming from the quarries of the Eastern Mediterranean basin. The wide diffusion of coloured marbles in the western part of Regio X (Venetia et Histria) is then compared to the marbles found in the eastern part of the Regio XI (Transpadana), two territories today united in the region of Lombardy