The works collected in this volume address some of the many open questions about the research on villae maritimae in the Roman West. We do not have complete information about the characteristics of this type of villae in the Roman world, as the ancient authors themselves used the term to designate very different realities. Through the contributions that study this subject in this monograph, which take into consideration literary and epigraphic sources, as well as archeological information, e attempt to offer details of how these structures evolved in the architectural, topographical, functional, and even ideological and social spheres.