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Story summary
- Mayor Robert Gualtieri presented the restored “Painted City” fresco and “Great Mosaic” to the public.
- The fresco, a 1st-century AD wall scene, is the largest known Roman wall fresco.
- The mosaic stands about 15 metres high and depicts four levels of theatrical and port scenes.
- Excavations in the 1990s uncovered both works in an underground gallery of the Baths of Trajan.
