Aside from the villa at Settefinestre, there are remains of comparable contemporary villas at Colonne and Provincia.
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It was excavated during 1976-1981 under the direction of Andrea Carandini and very thoroughly published.
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Villa Settefinestre lies between Capalbio and Orbetello in Tuscany, Italy, and is the site of a late Republican Roman slave-run villa owned by the senatorial family of the Volusii, built in the 1st century BC and enlarged in the 1st century AD with a large cryptoportico. The villa was fortified at a later period and the fortress was rebuilt as a villa in the more modern sense in the 15th century.