Behind the security of the Roman border, large farms fashioned after the Roman agricultural model sprang up. The increasing need for foodstuffs as the population grew made for a ready market. The central building of such a farm was a villa, often twee stories high in the second century, with it’s own bathhouse and outbuildings as stables, barns and granaries.

The central building of the park will be an architectural model of such a villa,  including a vegetable garden with crops of that era. These will be sown, tended and harvested as we believe it was done in Roman times. The grains and fibres which we buy from surrounding farmers, who have sown in parcels of land for us where we have contracted grain and crops, is made into products within the park.

The villa rustica in the park is a replica of a villa found in the Netherlands consisting of two stories. Around the main building a granary, some stables, a workshop with smithy and a bathhouse will be built. The ground floor of the villa will house the freely admissible visitors centre on the Realm of Nijmegen, the agriculture in Roman times and an exhibition of products that were made at such a villa. It will also house the restaurant and a separate museum section, where the living quarters are recreated. The upper floor will house the offices and some meeting-rooms for business gatherings.