Villa romana de Río Verde

Villa romana de Río Verde is a Roman villa on the coast of Marbella, Spain, at the mouth of the Río Verde river. It represents the pars urbana (urban section) of an affluent coastal villa, where its pars rustica (rural part) would have been dedicated to marine exploitation and the salting of fish —a profitable activity pursued by many coastal settlements in the Baetic region, especially during the Roman era. This is evident in some of the decorative elements of the culinary mosaic that adorns the residential area of the house.