Excavation work has confirmed the existence of a ‘torcularium’ – for making oil or wine – at the Villa Romana site near the coast of Alfaz del Pi.
Open-air museum director Carolina Frías said the structure was initially thought to be an oil mill with a press for oil extraction.
However, the continuing dig at the site has unearthed more of the remains, which ‘suggest that it was used for wine production’.
Full report in Friday’s Costa Blanca News
