Roman Mosaics of Risan

Name: Roman Mosaics of Risan
Address: Risan, Montenegro

Museum

Museum · Risan, Montenegro 42.5119°N 18.6969°E

Why you should go

Ninety seconds on Roman Mosaics of Risan

Time needed

Under an hourOne loop of the walkway

Cost

TicketedCombined with Perast

Effort

Flat and compactShort walk from the bus

Guide

Not neededGo on your own

Buy the combined ticket and see the museum in Perast on the same day. The floor to come for is Hypnos, asleep on his pillows in the master bedroom; most of the rest is geometry.

Visiting

Walkways run round the old atrium, so you look down on the floors room by room instead of walking on them. Most panels are black and white patterns: squid and wine in the dining room, double-headed axes in another room, a chequerboard in a third.

Hypnos is the only panel in the house worked in more than three colours. A leaflet comes with the ticket, and a long display on one wall explains the villa and the town around it.

Queues are rare. Out the back, stone pillars and fragments from the villa and from Carine, a nearby Illyrian site, stand in the yard.