A unique archaeological site featuring the remains of a Roman house and a temple dedicated to Mithras, with murals and the architecture of the ancient Lucus ...

An archaeological site that is one of the best-preserved areas of the ancient Lucus Augusti, where visitors can see the remains of a large Roman house that was partially destroyed by the city wall, as well as those of a temple dedicated to the god Mithras. It is situated in the Casa del Saber at the University of Santiago de Compostela. This is a unique site in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula which provides insight into the way of life of the Romans who inhabited the city of Lugo up until the 2nd and 4th centuries AD, and which also sheds light on the socio-economic, architectural and urban layout of the city during that period. Specifically, the remains on display belong to an important domus, or Roman house from the High Imperial period, of which several rooms have been preserved. These are arranged around a central porticoed courtyard and feature walls over two metres high, with significant traces of wall paintings, and which, during the Late Empire, was partly expropriated for the construction of the city wall. It is also worth highlighting the presence of a rectangular Mithraeum, identified as such thanks to the discovery of an inscription dedicated to the Eastern god Mithras, made by Gaius Victorius Victorinus, a centurion of the Legio Septima Gemina, as well as by the architectural layout itself and various archaeological elements of a liturgical nature found at the site.