According to classical texts, the roman villa was organized on a
tripartite structure, with well-defined functional groups: pars urbana,
pars rustica and pars fructuaria. These last two are devoted to what is
generally regarded as the predominant economic activity in such places:
the agro-pastoralist exploration. However, these two groups have been
those that received less research, with the attentions concentrated in
pars urbana. By so, some considerations about agricultural outhouses
in Lusitanian villae are presented.
