In the municipality of Yecla they have calculated the total number of five rustic villas, which in addition to Los Torrejones, complete the Roman settlement in our area:
El Pulpillo
Marisparza
Casa de la Ermita
Fuente del Pinar
And two more sites which correspond to a Roman mansio, that’s to say a stopping place (which may be equivalent to a current hostelry)
and a Roman route, in this case the Via Augusta route, which connected Cádiz through Játiva, Vía Cástulo (Jaén) which passing through the municipality of Yecla, corresponds to the so called Traviesa de Caudete. Those mansio have been found in the areas of:
Casas de Almansa
Casa de las Cebollas
The Roman Road Route
The route of the Roman road (the current Traviesa de Caudete), which would coincide with the one connecting Ad Aras and Ad Palem stopping places (mansio), a communication road connecting Játiva with Cástulo in Jaén. There are four important rustic villas: Casa de la Ermita, Los Torrejones, Marisparza, Fuente del Pinar and el Pulpillo, in addition of mansio located next to the road.
Los Torrejones
It is a Roman site of a rustic villa, a traditional agricultural holding from the Roman period. As a general rule, it had a monumental or lordly area where the owner used to live, and a service area allocated to the workforce assigned to the farm.
This villa was inhabited between the 1st and the 4th century of our times. In these centuries a concentration of population appears to have been around the villa of Los Torrejones, a moment during which it was fortified.
Some old Roman premises will be reused and converted into a hamlet’s tower or an “almunia”(a vegetable patch or a farm) during Almohad age (in the second half of the twentieth century), reusing the antique defence and hydraulic systems from the Roman period.
El Pulpillo
It’s one of the five rustic villas which complete the Roman settlement in our area: El Pulpillo, Marisparza, Casa de la Ermita and Fuente del Pinar.
Marisparza
It’s one of the five rustic villas which complete the Roman settlement in our area: El Pulpillo, Marisparza, Casa de la Ermita and Fuente del Pinar.
Casa de la Ermita
It’s one of the five rustic villas which complete the Roman settlement in our area: El Pulpillo, Marisparza, Casa de la Ermita and Fuente del Pinar.
Fuente del Pinar
It’s one of the five rustic villas which complete the Roman settlement in our area: El Pulpillo, Marisparza, Casa de la Ermita and Fuente del Pinar,
You can find wine facilities belonging to a winery from the Roman period. With an area of approximate 300 square kilometres, these are the typical facilities of a bodega from the Roman period. Its essential parts are: the winery, the patio and the will cellars…
The most significant structure of the bodega is the central room of the ensemble, the calcatorium or winery, a platform where grapes are trampled. Next to the calcatorium there was the so called lacus vinarius, a barrel where wine was fermented before being transfer to the dolium or large storage jar.
Casas de Almansa
In the area of Casas de Almansa there is a site dating from the Roman period. A mansio is a stopping place (which may be equivalent to what we call nowadays an inn) next to a Roman road, in this case the Via Augusta route which connected through the inland Játiva with Cádiz. His passage through the current municipality of Yecla corresponds to the so-called Traviesa de Caudete.
These sites were occupied between the 1st and the 4th century B.C. C.
