The Roman Villa of Paturro is an archaeological site of a large Roman villa located in the mining Sierra de Cartagena-La Unión , in the vicinity of the town of Portmán. The excavations since 1969 have revealed the existence, in terraced sectors, of two well differentiated parts: One part, decorated with great luxury of materials, is dedicated to housing and another part dedicated to industrial exploitation.
The town of Paturro shows two different levels of occupation. A first level from the republican era in which the town would be linked to the exploitation of silver, lead and other metals from the Carthago Nova mines. A second level dates from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD in which the town appears associated with exploitations of garum (salted fish). The villa was abandoned in the 3rd century.
Among all the remains found, a large polychrome mosaic stands out (the largest in the Region of Murcia) that shows the figures of a deity and a peacock . Also noteworthy is the white marble head of a satyr. Numerous remains of parietal painting and coatings and architectural elements of marble of different types have also been found.
The large polychrome mosaic, with some other fragments from the excavations, is deposited in the Archaeological Museum of La Unión located in the hamlet of Portmán, while the rest of the materials are distributed between the archaeological museums of Cartagena and Murcia.
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The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.