 Comparable to a large number of rustic villas in Italy and Spain, Milreu distinguished itself as a luxury complex due to its extensive and pompous mosaic decorations, ancient imperial busts, a temple devoted to a water deity, a stunning garden and winery and oil processing mills.At the end of the 3rd century, the house was reorganized around a large central peristyle with columns, surrounding an open courtyard with garden and thermae.In the 4th century, the entrance of the villa was monumental, with the peristyle and baths having been embellished with mosaics representing marine fauna, while to the south stood an imposing building of worship to an aquatic deity, that in the following century would be transformed into a Paleochristan temple.