Baláca római villagazdaság

Was cool. Well preserved ruins and a guided tour. Recommended if you speak Hungarian.

Amazing roman ruins - nice exhibitions, unfortunately the display signs are in Hungarian only.

Ruins , history, go visit and learn something

Even after Pompeii and Herculaneum, this villa visit provided many fingers! We asked for a guide and we spent a very enjoyable 2 hours with the time travel and the main building is closed due to roof renovation. We also heard that there are people who run it in 15 minutes ... We'll be back even if the renovation is over.

Balácai is the largest researched farm in Pannonia. Several buildings of the Roman period have been excavated, including the huge central residential building, in which we can also see many valuable artifacts, including the fantastic floor mosaics, these nearly two thousand years old masterpieces. Description Life in Pannonia In the 1st century, Pannonia became a province of the Roman Empire. The Romans brought their culture and customs with the conquests, and during the four centuries spent here, these were largely taken over by the “natives” living here. In the place of settlements consisting of scattered houses, cities were formed, houses made of durable materials were built, paved streets, plumbing and heating also appeared. At the same time, new types of economic units were established, mainly small and large villa farms developed in the Balaton Uplands. Today we would rather call this Roman farm, where agriculture and animal husbandry were practiced. The origin of the Balácapuszta farm is uncertain, but it may have been one of the estates that the soldiers, who had proved in the fighting but had already retired, received as veterans of their service as family property. The center of the estate was surrounded by a wall, within which residential and farm buildings, ornamental and farm yards were built. Roman culture also included the workmanship and decoration of the interiors. Mosaics requiring a high level of expertise and practice, a floor and wall heating system, the design of vaulted ceilings and countless other architectural technical solutions represented the highest technical standards of the age. In addition to self-sufficiency, the farm was most likely also produced for sale. In the life of Pannonia, production has always had a good market due to the supply of a large number of troops stationed along the Danube, and the Balaton Uplands were more protected than average, and the people living here suffered less from war. The heyday of the economy in the 2-3. century, as evidenced by material and written memories. Although the 4-5. there are also traces of construction from the 16th century, after the 5th century, after the Pannonian collapse of the Roman Empire, the fate of the estate was uncertain. In the excavated area today we can see the 2000 m2 central building of the villa farm, three partially walled buildings and the lapidarium, which houses the Roman monuments of Veszprém county. The rest of the majors are garden-like, with a Mediterranean garden featuring Roman spices and herbs and a precisely functioning sundial. About 600 meters north of the center of the farm is a former mausoleum reminiscent of Italian tombs, the Likas Hill mound. Its area of ​​nearly 36 meters in diameter was surrounded by a rectangular wall. A long, vaulted corridor led to the double tomb. Disclosure The first remains of walls and fragments of murals were found in 1904 by the plowsmen in the land of the Veszprém chapter. Explorations began in 1906 under the leadership of the director of the newly formed county museum. Gyula Rhé also documented the twenty years of exploration in detail in his diary and published book. The most valuable treasures of the main building, the mosaics covering the floors, were learned to be picked up and restored with the help of a foreign expert. In 1925, the Hungarian National Museum also joined the works, bearing the costs. Therefore, in return, he received the 62 m2 mosaic floor of one of the rooms, which has been on display in the museum ever since. It is interesting that in 1932 Count Kunó Klebelsberg, Minister of Religion and Public Education, was buried on this. The other three mosaic floors returned to their original location in 1984, the year the ceremonial opening of the ruin garden. Excavations resumed in 1976, thanks to new archaeological methods, they were able to explore deeper layers, but then newer buildings were discovered, as well as a bath in very good condition. (Source: Nature Trail)