3D VR Ancient Roman City (360)

Salve! I am Lucius. Now, almost 100 years since the conquest of Dacia, our lovely settlement of Porolissum has become a town. Today, our magnificent town is inhabited by Italics, Germanics, Britons, Syrians and Africans. I invite you to visit their houses, which are found on both sides of the Roman road. The houses of Porolissum, as in other Roman settlements, have guest rooms into which the owner would invite his clients to dinner or to grand banquets. The guests were served their meals while lying upon special beds, called clinai, which were especially designed for this kind of events. These rooms have heating systems installed below the floors. The walls are painted in different colors, with vegetation or Greek-Roman mythological motifs. In addition to the guest chambers, the houses have their own kitchen, named culina. Kitchens were furnished with an oven where food was prepared, with a cabinet to store the dishes and mortars for grinding wheat. Many of our houses at Porolissum have upper floors, which can be reached by means of wooden stairs. Each house also had a sacred area, a special place called lararium, dedicated to the lares gods, the protective deities of the household. The upper floors usually have bedrooms used by the members of the family, while the slaves lived downstairs, in small chambers at the back of the house. We Romans built public baths, where we gather regardless of our social status, and access is free of charge. Our baths are heated through the floor and walls, which is the concern of our slaves. The chambers have pools filled with cold and warm water. I must confess that we use these baths, or terme, as we call them, not only for hygiene purposes, but more importantly to socialize with our friends and clients. In the residences of the elite, after you enter through a parlor called vestibulum, the house opens itself up into a spacious chamber called atrium, where there is usually a basin for collecting rainwater. Here too, the rooms are nicely decorated, as is this cubiculum, the guest room. Interior rooms are lit artificially with lamps and candles, so that we can better admire the expensive frescoes commissioned by the owner. I invite you now to tablinium, my study room, where we can have a conversation about porulism. And here we are, finally, in another sumptuous villa. The owners of the house welcomed their guests together, with the entire family and with their slaves. The head of the household is positioned on a higher level, on the stairs, in order to stand out from the rest of the family members. Fortuna the guide has shown us the road to the end. I, Lucius, have guided you through our beautiful town and through its sumptuous houses. May the gods be with you.