There was an ancient kitchen house in the back yard, left over from the days when kitchens were built separate from the main houses in order to prevent fires, and the hired fellow could stay there as part of his salary.
Mumbai has numerous museums and cultural sites, such as the Elephanta caves, which house ancient Hindu sculptures, and Victoria Terminus (Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus), an iconic train station built by the British in 1888 to celebrate Queen Victoria's 50-year reign on the throne.
By the end of that millennium, however, Butrint was in the hands of the Romans who smartened up the theatre and installed (predictably) a new bath house by the ancient city wall.
For me, this house, this farm, these ancient vines are those roots.
Indeed, if superstitious, take into account that Ancient Chinese wisdom advises a Snake in the house because it protects you and and your family from starving.
In ancient times the distinction was clear: The manor house and the farmland around it constituted principal, and the right to live in the house or to collect the farm rents was income.
What it suggests is that memory is tied directly to location (and emotion), so that the ancient Renaissance trick of remembering things by placing them in various rooms of a familiar house is an excellent way of exploiting the natural resources of the brain to improve retention of information.
To that end, both the 3, 000-square-foot, three-bedroom house and the 16, 000-square-foot winery are clad in ancient-looking limestone siding and topped with red-clay roof tiles imported from France.
The house is open to the public and the rambling grounds have a number of easy walks though ancient forests.
An ancient gold ring thought to have inspired JRR Tolkien to write The Hobbit is on display at a Tudor house.
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