Atlas Obscura
Roman Mosaics of Carranque in El Álamo, Spain
Hidden among the flat agricultural landscapes north of Toledo lies one of Spain’s most extraordinary Roman discoveries: the mosaics of Carranque. Unearthed by chance in 1983 when a young farmer noticed fragments of colored stone in a field, the site revealed the remains of a lavish late-Roman villa whose floors were covered with some of the finest mosaics ever found in Hispania. What appeared t…