Nennig, Roman Floor

Over a hundred years ago in Nennig, Germany, across the Mosel River from Remich, Luxembourg, a farmer was planting potatoes in the backyard (perhaps), when his shovel discovered a beautiful floor, a memento of a Roman home from a couple thousand years earlier. Romans ruled this area for hundreds of years, and their capital was just a few miles down the Mosel, in nearby Trier.

In the late 1800s a building was erected to protect the special floor, and in the 1980s artists from Villeroy & Boch restored the beautiful artwork.

We have seen other mosaic floors, made of “millions” of small pieces of tile, in several different countries, including museums in the US, but we think this one is the most exceptional, both in pattern and in detail.