The Silarium

The silarium was part of the big house down those dirt roads on the south side of town. Nobody lived there any more, but it was open to the public for tours and lectures. Beside the huge kitchen, where copper pans were still hanging from hooks in the ceiling, was a passage that led to a place called a silarium. A room made of glass, a large one that our tour guide told us had been completely rebuilt a few years before. It had been a hefty project to turn the space which had become a cold place of broken panes and stashed garden tools into a beautiful and inviting conservatory. They'd laid in an under floor heating system that would