Villa Servi

I made a cornball map of Villa Servi, a unique structure built in the years following Hannibal’s failed invasion (when Rome amplified the colonization of the Alps).

Magnus Servius came to the Leontine’s to oversee his grandfather’s immature walnut grove and father’s apple orchards. He spent most of his adult life adding a second-story to the farmhouse, and planting pears alongside the first orchard.

His son, Rufus never left, marrying a Cisalpine Gaul, be began selling their crops to Rome proper. His fortune rising, he built the underground baths and side yard, where he planted glass panels in the grass to serve as skylights for the baths below.

His son, Vitus, returned from Roman with a wife and focused his talents on walling in the plantation grounds and building a better village for his orchard workers. Profits from their first walnut harvest (when his son was born) enabled them to build a domus in Novum Comum.

His son, Scipio, the new scion of the villa, is fresh from the Gallic Wars. Every bit as talented as his forefathers, he’s contemplating the future of nearby Comum and has little time to change his ancestral home.

Here is a pic of the first floor, second floor, and sublevel.

Here’s a pic of the domus (townhome) in Comum: