Archaeological Sites in Italy

Accua

Accua was a small town of ancient Apulia, mentioned only by Livy as one of the places recovered by Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus from the Carthaginians in the fifth year of…

Aeclanum

Aeclanum was an ancient town of Samnium, Southern Italy, about 25 km east-southeast of Beneventum, on the Via Appia. Today there are ruins of the city walls, of an aqueduct, baths…

Aequum Tuticum

Aequum Tuticum was a Roman vicus in southern Italy, about 35 km east-northeast of Beneventum. Aequum Tuticum was founded near the intersection of two ancient Roman roads: Via…

Alba Fucens

Alba Fucens was an ancient Italic town located at 1,000 m elevation at the base of Monte Velino, approximately 6.5 km north of Avezzano, Abruzzo, central Italy. In the struggle…

Allifae

Allifae was an ancient town of Italy, a center of Oscan or Samnite origin, situated in the valley of the Vulturnus, at the foot of the lofty mountain group now called the Monte…

Amiternum

Amiternum was an ancient Sabine city, then Roman city and later bishopric and Latin Catholic titular see in the central Abruzzo region of modern Italy, located 9 km from L'Aquila.…

Ancient City of Blanda

Blanda (Greek: Βλάνδα), and later Blanda Julia, was an ancient city of Lucania now located at Palecastro di Tortora, Province of Cosenza, Italy. In the 4th century BC the…

Ancient City of Caulonia

A Greek colony of Magna Graecia on the Ionian Sea near modern Monasterace, Calabria, Italy, and one of the first cities in the region to mint silver coins. Conquered and razed by…

Ancient City of Nora

Nora is an ancient city on the peninsula of Capo Pula near Pula in Sardinia, Italy, dating from the 7th century BC to the 8th century AD. Originally a Phoenician and Punic…

Ancient City of Terina

Terina was an ancient city located on the Piano di Tirena hill in Nocera Terinese about 20 km from Lamezia Terme in Calabria. The site of the city was allegedly found in 1922 by…

Ancient City of Tharros

Tharros was a major Phoenician-Punic city on the Capo San Marco peninsula in the Gulf of Oristano, western Sardinia, flourishing from the 8th century BC through the Roman period…

Atella

Atella was an ancient Oscan city of Campania, located 20km directly north of Naples. The ruins of the city walls, private houses, the so-called garden of Virgil and many tombs…

Aufina

Ancient city of the Vestini people in the Abruzzo region of central Italy, mentioned by Pliny as Aufinates Cismontani. Long identified with modern Ofena, recent excavations have…

Baiae

Baiae is an ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples and now in the comune of Bacoli. It was a resort for centuries in antiquity, particularly…

Calatia

Cālātia was an ancient town of Campania, southern Italy, c. 10 km southeast of Capua, on the Via Appia, near the point where the Via Popillia branches off from it. It is…

Cales

Cales was an ancient city of Campania, in today's comune of Calvi Risorta in southern Italy, belonging originally to the Aurunci/Ausoni, on the Via Latina. The Romans captured it…

Cannae

Cannae is an ancient village of the Apulia region of south east Italy. Later, the place became a municipium, and the remains of an unimportant Roman town still exist upon the hill…

Casilinum

Casilinum was an ancient city of Campania, Italy, located where modern Capua now stands, approximately 29 km north of Naples. Probably founded around 600 BC by the Etruscans, its…

Castro, Apulia

Castro, in the province of Lecce, Apulia, is the ancient Castrum Minervae mentioned by Virgil in the Aeneid as the first Italian landfall of Aeneas after fleeing Troy. The…

Compsa

Compsa was an ancient city of the Hirpini, near the sources of the Aufidus, on the boundary of Lucania and not far from that of Apulia, on a ridge 609 m above sea level. It was…

Coppa Nevigata

Coppa Nevigata is an archaeological site in the province of Foggia, southern Italy, southwest of Manfredonia, on the Apulian coast of the Gargano peninsula. The earliest recorded…

Corfinium

Corfinium was an ancient city now near modern Corfinio, in the province of L'Aquila. Corfinium was the capital of the Paeligni, situated in the valley of the Aternus. It was 7…

Cumae

Cumae was the first ancient Greek colony on mainland Italy, founded around 725 BC by Euboean settlers from Chalcis. It became a major power in Campania, spreading Greek culture…

Eryx (Sicily)

Eryx was an ancient Elymian city atop Mount Eryx (750m) in western Sicily, at the site of modern Erice. Its summit hosted the Temple of Venus Erycina, described by Polybius as…

Gnatia

Gnatia, Egnatia or Ignatia was an ancient city of the Messapii, and their frontier town towards the Salentini. The first settlement known in the place dates from the Bronze Age…

Grumentum

Grumentum was an ancient Roman city in the centre of Lucania, in what is now the comune of Grumento Nova, c. 50 km south of Potenza by the direct road through Anxia, and 80 km by…

Helorus

Helorus (modern Eloro) was an ancient Greek colony of Syracuse founded in the late 8th century BC on the southeast coast of Sicily, connected to its mother city by the Via…

Heraclea Lucania

Heraclea was an ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia, situated on the Gulf of Taranto between the rivers Aciris (modern Agri) and Siris (modern Sinni). The ruins are located in…

Heraclea Minoa

An ancient Greek colony on Sicily's southern coast atop the white cliffs of Capo Bianco, near the mouth of the Halykos River. The city was contested between Selinus, Akragas,…

Herculaneum

An ancient Roman town of 4,000-5,000 inhabitants buried under 15-18 metres of pyroclastic material by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Unlike Pompeii, the volcanic flows…

Himera

Himera, was a large and important ancient Greek city situated on the north coast of Sicily at the mouth of the river of the same name, between Panormus and Cephaloedium in the…

Hybla Gereatis

Hybla Gereatis has been described as the largest and most considerable of the Sicilian cities called Hybla, thence equated with Hybla Major or Magna. During the Second Punic War,…

Juvanum

Juvanum or Jovanum was one of the chief cities of the Caraceni, a tribe of Samnites, the ruins of which are located in the communes of Montenerodomo and Torricella Peligna, in the…

Krimisa

Krimisa, Crimisa or Crimissa was an ancient town, probably originating in the 7th century BC. It was inhabited by an indigenous people assimilated by the Greeks. The sanctuary of…

Laüs

Laüs or Laus was an ancient city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It was at the mouth of the Lao River, which formed the boundary between Lucania and Bruttium in ancient times…

Licata

An ancient settlement on the south coast of Sicily at the mouth of the Salso River, with occupation from the Bronze Age through the Roman period. Monte Petrulla contains a…

Ligures Baebiani

Liternum

Liternum was an ancient Roman colony in Campania, Italy, situated near Patria Lake on the low sandy coast between Cumae and the Volturnus River. Originally probably dependent on…

Lucus Angitiae

Lucus Angitiae was an Italic and Roman town and sanctuary with temple of the goddess Angitia, the ruins of which are located in the comune of Luco dei Marsi in the Abruzzo region…

Megara Hyblaea

Megara Hyblaea – perhaps identical with Hybla Major – is an ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia in Sicily, situated near Augusta on the east coast, 20 kilometres north-northwest…

Merano

A municipality in South Tyrol, northern Italy, located in a mountain basin at the entrance to the Passeier Valley and Vinschgau. The area has been inhabited since the 3rd…

Metapontum

Metapontum or Metapontium was an ancient city of Magna Graecia, situated on the gulf of Tarentum, between the river Bradanus and the Casuentus. The ruins of Metapontum are located…

Milazzo

Several civilizations settled in Milazzo and left signs of their presence from the Neolithic age. Historically, the town originated as the ancient Greek Mylae in Magna Graecia, an…

Miseno

Misenum (modern Miseno) was the largest naval base of the Roman Empire, situated at the northwestern limit of the Bay of Naples in Campania, Italy. Marcus Agrippa established it…

Monte Adranone

Monte Adranone is a mountain rising 900 metres above sea level in the north of the comune of Sambuca di Sicilia. At the summit of the mountain are the remains of an ancient city,…

Monte Bubbonia

Monte Bubbonìa is a 595-metre-high hill located in the comune of Mazzarino, about twenty kilometres from the city of Gela. It consists of three platforms, descending from west to…

Monte Pruno

Monte Pruno is a mountain in the southern Cilento region of the Province of Salerno, in the Campania region, of southern Italy. The mountain is in the Lucan Apennines mountain…

Motya

Motya was an ancient and powerful city on San Pantaleo Island off the west coast of Sicily, in the Stagnone Lagoon between Drepanum and Lilybaeum. Motya has become known for the…

Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Zona Archeologica di Luni

The National Archaeological Museum and archaeological zone of Luni preserve the remains of a Roman colony founded in 177 BC at the mouth of the Magra River on the Liguria-Tuscany…

Ocriticum

Ocriticum was an Italic and Roman town, the ruins of which are located in the comune of Cansano, in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The presence of a…

Oplontis

Oplontis is an ancient Roman archaeological site in Torre Annunziata, south of Naples, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The site comprises two villas: Villa A…

Paestum

Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia. The ruins of Paestum are famous for their three ancient Greek temples in the Doric…

Palma di Montechiaro

Palma di Montechiaro is a town in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, where numerous Greek archaeological findings of Magna Graecia have been discovered. The area was inhabited…

Parco Archeologico Antica Norba

Norba is an ancient Latin city situated overlooking the Pontine Marshes. Founded as a Roman colony in 492 BC to guard against the Volsci, it became an important fortress. The site…

Peltuinum

Peltuinum was a Roman town of the Vestini, on the ancient Via Claudia Nova, 20 km east of L'Aquila, Italy, between the modern-day settlements of Prata d'Ansidonia and Castelnuovo.…

Pollena Trocchia

The baths of an ancient Roman villa were discovered at Masseria De Carolis in Pollena Trocchia in 1988 and subsequently exposed. The baths were built after the 79 AD eruption and…

Pompeii

Pompeii was an ancient Roman city in Campania, Italy, first settled by Oscan-speaking peoples and influenced by Greek culture from the 8th century BC. Home to 10,000-20,000…

Posillipo

Posillipo is a rocky peninsula about 6 km long surrounded by cliffs with a few small coves with breakwaters at the western end of the Bay of Naples. Posillipo is mentioned in…

Pozzuoli

Pozzuoli, known in antiquity as Puteoli, was established in 531 BC as the Greek colony of Dicaearchia by refugees fleeing the tyranny of Polycrates on Samos. During the Second…

Roca Archaeological Site

Roca (also known as Rocavecchia or Roca Vecchia) is an archaeological site located on the Adriatic coast of Apulia in Southern Italy, a few kilometres from the modern town of…

Rudiae

Strabo called Rudiae a "Greek city". Rudiae is identified with the archaeological remains found in the immediate outskirts of Lecce. These comprise traces of an amphitheatre, a…

Salapia

Salapia was an ancient Daunian settlement near modern Cerignola and Manfredonia. Classical sources including Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, and possibly Strabo (as "Elpia") reference…

Saticula

Saticula was a Caudini city near the frontier of Campania in southern Italy. In 343 BC, during the First Samnite War, the Roman consul Cornelius attacked it during the campaign…

Scylletium

Scylletium (later Scolacium) was an ancient Greek colony of Magna Graecia on the Ionian coast of Calabria, Italy, near modern Catanzaro. Founded by Athenian settlers, it was taken…

Segesta

Segesta was one of the major cities of the Elymians, one of the three indigenous peoples of Sicily. Segesta is located in the northwestern part of Sicily in Italy, near the modern…

Selinunte Archaeological Park

Selinunte was a prosperous ancient Greek colony on the southwestern coast of Sicily, founded around 628 BC by settlers from Megara Hyblaea. At its peak before 409 BC, the city may…

Sinuessa

Sinuessa was a city of Latium, in the more extended sense of the name, situated on the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 10 km north of the mouth of the Volturno River. It was on the line of…

Siponto

Siponto was an ancient port town and bishopric of Magna Graecia in Apulia, southern Italy. Siponto is located around 3 km south of Manfredonia. In 189 BC it became a Roman colony…

Somma Vesuviana

Before the Roman colonisation, the area of today's Somma Vesuviana was probably inhabited by Italic peoples like Samnites and Oscans. A large Roman villa was discovered in the…

Stabiae

Stabiae was an ancient city situated near the modern town of Castellammare di Stabia and approximately 4.5 km southwest of Pompeii. Like Pompeii, and being only 16 km from Mount…

Suessula

Suessula is repeatedly mentioned during the wars between Romans and Samnites. In the Second Punic War the city played a considerable part, though apparently more from its position…

Sybaris

Sybaris was an important ancient Greek city situated on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto in modern Calabria. The city was founded around 720 BC by Achaean and Troezenian settlers.…

Sybaris on the Traeis

Sybaris on the Traeis was an ancient city situated on the Traeis river, now known as the Trionto. It shares its name with the original city of Sybaris which was destroyed in 510…

Taormina

Taormina's history dates to before Ancient Greece established its first colony on Sicily in 734 BCE in Magna Graecia; the Greek name for the city was Tauroménion, later Latinized…

Tauriana

Tauriana or Taureana was an ancient city located in present Palmi, Reggio Calabria province. The city stood 1 km south of the river Metauros (probably Petrace) on the…

Teanum Apulum

Teanum Apulum was an ancient Apulian town near modern San Paolo di Civitate in southeastern Italy, located at a crossing of the Fortore river on the road between Larinum and…

Thurii

Thurii, called also by some Latin writers Thūrium, and later in Roman times also Cōpia and Cōpiae, was an ancient Greek city situated on the Gulf of Taranto, near or on the site…

Tindari

The Greek theater, built between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, could seat 3,000 spectators. Part of the cliff collapsed in the 1st century AD, destroying sections of the town, and…

Torre del Greco

Based on archaeological evidence, in Roman times Torre del Greco was probably a suburb of Herculaneum and, like elsewhere on the Bay of Naples such as at Oplontis and Stabiae,…

Trebula Balliensis

Trebula or Trebula Balliensis or Trebula Baliensis, was an ancient city of Campania, Italy. The first mention of the name occurs in 303 BCE, when we are told that the Trebulani…

Velia

Velia was the Roman name of an ancient city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is located near the modern village of Ascea in the Province of Salerno. It was founded by Greeks…

Vescia

Vescia was an ancient city of the Ausones, in what is now central-southern Italy, which was part of the so-called Auruncan Pentapolis and was destroyed by the Romans in 340 BC.…

House of Julia Felix, Pompeii

The House of Julia Felix, also referred to as the praedia of Julia Felix, is a large Roman property on the Via dell'Abbondanza in the city of Pompeii. It was originally the…

House of Loreius Tiburtinus, Pompeii

The House of Loreius Tiburtinus is renowned for well-preserved art, mainly in wall-paintings as well as its large gardens. It is in the Roman city of Pompeii and with the rest of…

House of Menander, Pompeii

The House of Menander is one of the richest and most magnificent houses in ancient Pompeii in terms of architecture, decoration and contents, and covers a large area of about…

House of Sallust, Pompeii

The House of Sallust (also known in earlier excavation reports as the House of Actaeon) was an elite residence (domus) in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii and among the most…

House of the Centenary, Pompeii

The House of the Centenary was a luxurious residence in Pompeii, built in the mid-2nd century BC and named for the 18th centenary of Vesuvius's 79 AD eruption. Among the largest…

House of the Faun, Pompeii

The House of the Faun was a grand Hellenistic residence constructed in the 2nd century BCE during the Samnite period in Pompeii, Italy. Named after a bronze statuette of a dancing…

House of the Greek Epigrams, Pompeii

The House of the Greek Epigrams is a Roman residence in the ancient town of Pompeii that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. It is named after wall paintings…

House of the Prince of Naples, Pompeii

The House of the Prince of Naples is a Roman domus located in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii near Naples, Italy. The structure is so named because the Prince and Princess of…

House of the Silver Wedding, Pompeii

The House of the Silver Wedding is the archaeological remains of a Roman domus in Pompeii, destroyed during the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Constructed…

House of the Small Fountain, Pompeii

The House of the Small Fountain, aka House of the Second Fountain or House of the Landscapes, is located in the Roman city of Pompeii and, with the rest of Pompeii, was preserved…

House of the Surgeon, Pompeii

One of Pompeii's most famous houses, excavated in 1770 by Francesco La Vega and named after surgical instruments (forceps, scalpels, probes) found during the dig. Built in opus…

House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii

The House of the Tragic Poet is a Roman house in Pompeii, Italy dating to the 2nd century BCE. The house is famous for its elaborate mosaic floors and frescoes depicting scenes…

House of the Vettii, Pompeii

The House of the Vettii is a domus located in the Roman town Pompeii, which was preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The house is named for its owners, two…

Positano

Beneath the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Positano lies a 1st-century AD Roman villa, buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD after being damaged by the earthquake of…

Villa Boscoreale

Villa Boscoreale is a name given to any of several Roman villas discovered in the district of Boscoreale, Italy. They were all buried and preserved by the eruption of Mount…

Villa Jovis

Villa Jovis is a Roman palace on Capri built by Emperor Tiberius and completed in 27 AD. Tiberius ruled mainly from there until his death in 37 AD. Villa Jovis is the largest of…

Villa of Diomedes

The Villa of Diomedes is an ancient Roman villa near Pompeii. It is located outside the walls of Pompeii on the Via dei Sepolcri to the Gate of Herculaneum. It was excavated from…

Villa of Lucullus

The villa of Lucullus was an extensive and sumptuous ancient Roman villa built in the first century BC in Naples by the famous gourmet, general and consul Lucius Licinius…

Villa of the Mysteries

The Villa of the Mysteries is a well-preserved suburban ancient Roman villa on the outskirts of Pompeii, southern Italy. It is famous for the series of exquisite frescos in Room…

Villa of the Papyri

The Villa of the Papyri was an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum, in what is now Ercolano. It is named after its unique library of papyrus scrolls, discovered in 1750. The Villa…

Villa Poppaea

The Villa Poppaea is an ancient luxurious Roman seaside villa located in Torre Annunziata between Naples and Sorrento. It is also called the Villa Oplontis or Oplontis Villa A as…

Villa Romana, Minori

The Villa Romana or Roman Villa is an archaeological site dating from the 1st century in the Italian village of Minori, in Campania. The Villa Romana of Minori stood in a bay of…

Parco Archeologico Naturalistico di Santa Cristina

The archaeological park of Santa Cristina in Paulilatino, Sardinia, centers on one of the finest Nuragic sacred wells, dating to the Late Bronze Age (12th century BC). The well…

Second Temple of Hera, Paestum

The Second Temple of Hera (also erroneously called the Temple of Neptune or Poseidon) is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia in Paestum, Campania, Italy, built in the Doric order…

Tavole Palatine

The Tavole Palatine are the remains of a 6th-century BC hexastyle peripteral Greek temple in Magna Graecia, dedicated to the goddess Hera. Located near the Bradano river in…

Tempio di Zeus Olympios

The Temple of Olympian Zeus in Agrigento, Sicily, was never completed and now lies in ruins. It stands in the Valle dei Templi (Valley of the Temples) with a number of other major…

Temple C, Selinus

Temple C at Selinus, is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia in the Doric style. It was one of the most ancient of the temples at Selinus, having probably been built on the acropolis a…

Temple E, Selinus

Temple E at Selinus in Sicily is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia of the Doric order. It is found on the hill to the east of the city's acropolis. Temple E is also known as the…

Temple F, Selinus

Temple F at Selinus in Sicily is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia of the Doric order. It was probably dedicated to Dionysus or Athena and is one of the three temples on the East…

Temple of Antas, Fluminimaggiore

The Temple of Antas is a Carthaginian-Roman temple in Fluminimaggiore, southern Sardinia, Italy, built over a sanctuary dedicated to the god Sid Addir, later identified with the…

Temple of Apollo, Pompeii

The Temple of Apollo, also known as the Sanctuary of Apollo, is a Roman temple built in 120 BC and dedicated to the Greek and Roman god Apollo in the ancient Roman town of…

Temple of Athena, Paestum

The Temple of Athena is a Greek temple of Magna Graecia found at Paestum, in Capaccio Paestum. It was built around 500 BC and was for some time incorrectly thought to have been…

Temple of Isis, Pompeii

The Temple of Isis is a Roman temple in Pompeii dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. This small and almost intact temple was one of the first discoveries during the excavation…

Temple of Jupiter, Pompeii

The Temple of Jupiter, Capitolium, or Temple of the Capitoline Triad, was a temple in Roman Pompeii, at the north end of its forum. The temple structure was built in 150 BC to…

Temple of Victory, Himera

The Temple of Victory is a Greek temple of the ancient city of Himera in Magna Graecia located in the archaeological area of Termini Imerese, in the Metropolitan City of Palermo…

Valley of the Temples

The Valle dei Templi, or Valley of the Temples, is an archaeological site in Agrigento, Sicily. It is one of the most outstanding examples of ancient Greek art and architecture of…

Archaeological Area Santu Pedrù

Necropolis of ten domus de Janas carved into trachytic tuff on a hill in the Nurra region, Sardinia, dating to the 4th millennium BC. These hypogeic tombs represent collective…

Catacombs of Saint Gaudiosus

The Catacombs of Saint Gaudiosus are underground paleo-Christian burial sites (4th–5th century AD), located in the northern area of the city of Naples (now Stella district). The…

Catacombs of San Gennaro

The Catacombs of San Gennaro are underground paleo-Christian burial and worship sites in Naples, Italy, carved out of tuff, a porous stone. They are situated in the northern part…

Necropoli di Realmese

The Necropolis of Realmese is an Iron Age burial complex located 3 km northwest of Calascibetta in the Province of Enna, central Sicily. It comprises 288 rock-cut tombs. The site…

Necropoli Etrusca di Norchia

Norchia is an ancient Etruscan city and necropolis near Vetralla along the Via Clodia. Inhabited since the Bronze Age, it reached its peak between the 4th and 2nd centuries BC.…

Necropolis of Fossa

Necropolis of Fossa was an Italic necropolis, the ruins of which are located in the comune of Fossa, in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The origins of the…

Necropolis of Li Muri

The Necropolis of Li Muri is an archaeological site located in the municipality of Arzachena, Sardinia. The necropolis, thought to be a product of the Neolithic Arzachena culture…

Necropolis of Pranu Muttedu

The necropolis of Pranu Muttedu is one of the most important funerary areas of pre-Nuragic Sardinia and is located near Goni. The complex features a high concentration of…

Necropolis of Tuvixeddu in Cagliari

The Necropolis of Tuvixeddu is a Punic necropolis dating from the 6th century BC to the 1st century AD, located on the hill of Tuvixeddu in Cagliari, Sardinia. Its name derives…

Tomba dei Giganti di Coddu Vecchiu

The Giants' Grave of Coddu Vecchiu is a Nuragic funerary monument near Arzachena in northern Sardinia, built in two phases during the Bronze Age. Originally an allee couverte…

Tomb of The Diver, Paestum

The Tomb of the Diver is a frescoed tomb that dates to around 500 to 475 BCE, and is famous for the mysterious subject matter of the ceiling fresco. The tomb was built with five…

Via degli Inferi - Necropoli Banditaccia

The Via degli Inferi is an ancient Etruscan road carved deeply into the tufa rock, connecting the city of Caere to the Banditaccia Necropolis at Cerveteri. Wall heights reach up…

Virgil's Tomb

Virgil's tomb is a Roman burial vault in Naples, said to be the tomb of the poet Virgil. It is located at the entrance to the old Roman tunnel known as the Crypta Neapolitana or…

Fonte Sacra Su Tempiesu

A Nuragic sacred well temple near Orune in central Sardinia, dating to the Late Bronze Age (13th century BC) and used until the Early Iron Age. The temple comprises a vestibule…

Tempio di Giunone

The Temple of Juno (Temple D) is a Greek temple in the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento, Sicily.

Tempio di Poseidone

The Temple of Hera II is a Greek temple in Paestum, Campania, Italy, built in the Doric order around 460–450 BC during the Classical period of Magna Graecia. It is located just…

Tempio di Zeus, Selinunte

Selinunte was an ancient Greek city of Magna Graecia on the south-western coast of Sicily, situated between the valleys of the Cottone and Modione rivers.

Tempio Nuragico a Pozzo di Irru

The Sacred Well of Irru (Pozzo Sacro di Irru) is a Nuragic well temple near Nulvi in northern Sardinia, dating to the Bronze Age (11th century BC). The monument features a…

Temple of Augustus, Pozzuoli

The Temple of Augustus was a pseudoperipteral hexastyle temple, with nine fluted Corinthian columns along each long side and a rectangular cella formed of white marble blocks. The…

Temple of Concordia, Agrigento

The Temple of Concordia is an ancient Greek temple of Magna Graecia in the Valle dei Templi (Valley of the Temples) in Agrigento on the south coast of Sicily, Italy. It is the…

Temple of Diana, Cefalù, Sicily

Temple of Segesta

The Temple of Segesta is an ancient temple built around 420 BC in the hilltop archaeological area of Calatafimi Segesta in western Sicily. The well-preserved structure features…

Arch of Augustus

The Arch of Augustus is an Ancient Roman arch constructed in the city of Susa, Piedmont, in the province of Turin. It was built in 9–8 BC to record the renewed alliance between…

Arch of Augustus

The Arch of Augustus is a monument in the city of Aosta, northern Italy. It was erected in 25 BC on the occasion of the Roman victory over the Salassi and was the work of Aulus…

Arch of Hadrian, Capua

The Arch of Hadrian is an ancient Roman triumphal arch located in Santa Maria Capua Vetere (ancient Capua, now in the Province of Caserta, southern Italy). It was originally a…

Arch of Janus

The only surviving quadrifrons (four-faced) arch in Rome, standing 16 m high on a 12 m square base in the Forum Boarium. Built using spolia from earlier buildings, it may honor…

Arch of Trajan, Benevento

The Arch of Trajan is an ancient Roman triumphal arch in Benevento, southern Italy. It was erected in honour of the Emperor Trajan across the Via Appia, at the point where it…

Larger Gate of the Aurelian Walls of Rome

Porta Maggiore was built by Emperor Claudius in 52 AD as a monumental arch carrying the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus aqueducts across the Via Labicana and Via Praenestina. The…

Porta Nord Acropoli

Porta Nord Acropoli is a 5th-century BC temple complex and acropolis in the Selinunte Archaeological Park, located on a hill between the Modione and Cottone rivers where the…

Domus de Janas S'Incantu

S'Incantu is a Neolithic cave tomb (pre-4500 BC) in Sardinia, Italy, known as the "Fairy's Houses" and called the "Queen of the Domus de Janas" for its exceptional beauty and…

Grotta del Cavallo

The Grotta del Cavallo or Cavallo Cave is a limestone cave in the region of Apulia near Nardò 90 km south of Taranto. The cave is about 15 m above present sea level. It has a…

Grotta di Santa Croce

A major 1955 discovery yielded a Neanderthal femur. Artifacts are displayed at the Museo Civico Archeologico in Bisceglie.

Paglicci Cave

Paglicci Cave, near Rignano Garganico in Apulia, is one of Europe's most important Paleolithic sites, with a 12-metre stratigraphic sequence. Over 45,000 individual finds include…

Pertosa Caves

The Pertosa Caves (Grotte di Pertosa-Auletta) are a karst cave system in the Alburni mountains of Campania, Italy. They are the only caves in Europe to preserve the remains of a…

Sassi di Matera

Inhabited since 7000 BC, the Sassi di Matera comprise two districts—Sasso Caveoso and Sasso Barisano—in the city of Matera, Basilicata, Italy. These cave dwellings, carved…

Domus De Janas Torre Argentina

The domus de janas of Torre Argentina is a prehistoric and protohistoric tomb standing in one of the localities of the Sardinian municipality of Bosa, which counts at least…

Giants' Graves

Giants' tombs are Sardinian megalithic gallery graves built during the Bronze Age (c. 1800-1000 BC) by the Nuragic civilization. These communal burial structures feature long…

Tomba dei Giganti di Laccaneddu

The funerary chamber, constructed with well-squared trachytic orthostats, measures 7.10 m long and 2.80 m wide. Located in locality Lacanu, the site lies within Villanova…

Tomba dei Giganti e Nuraghe Imbertighe

The Tomb of the Giants of Imbertighe is an archaeological monument located in the territory of Borore, Sardinia, Italy. The site rises on the basaltic plateau of Abbasanta, an…

Tomb of Funeral Beds - Necropolis of Banditaccia

The Tomb of Funeral Beds (Tomba dei Letti Funebri) is a 6th-century BC Etruscan tomb within Tumulo II at the Banditaccia Necropolis in Cerveteri, Italy, a UNESCO World Heritage…

Tomb of the Bulls - Necropolis of Monterozzi

The Tomb of the Bulls is an Etruscan tomb in the Necropolis of Monterozzi near Tarquinia, Lazio. It was discovered in 1892 and has been dated back to either 540–530 BC or 530–520…

Amphitheatre Alba Fucens

A Roman amphitheatre measuring 96 by 79 metres at Alba Fucens, a Latin colony founded in 303 BC at 1,000 m elevation in Abruzzo, Italy. Built during the reign of Tiberius (14-37…

Amphitheatre of Capua

The Amphitheatre of Capua was a Roman amphitheatre in the ancient city of Capua, second only to the Colosseum in size and probably the model for it. Like all amphitheatres, the…

Amphitheatre of Pompeii

The Amphitheatre of Pompeii is one of the oldest surviving Roman amphitheatres. It is located in the ancient city of Pompeii, near Naples, and was buried by the eruption of Mount…

Flavian Amphitheatre, Pozzuoli

The Flavian Amphitheater, located in Pozzuoli, is the third-largest Roman amphitheater in Italy. Only the Roman Colosseum and the Amphitheatre of Capua are larger. It was likely…

Roman Amphitheatre of Cagliari

The Roman Amphitheatre of Cagliari is an ancient Roman amphitheatre, located in the city of Cagliari, southern Sardinia. The structure, built in the 2nd century AD, was half…

Arzachena Archaeological Park

A Neolithic and Nuragic park in northeastern Sardinia comprising eight archaeological sites spanning the 5th to 2nd millennium BC. Its centrepiece, the Necropolis of Li Muri,…

Cloaca, Capri

The Cloaca is a Roman-era sewage system on the island of Capri, Italy. The surviving outlet is visible west of Marina Grande.

Garden of the Fugitives, Pompeii

The Garden of the Fugitives is an archaeological site located in the ancient destroyed city of Pompeii, in Regio 1 Insula 21. It contains the casts of 13 victims of the eruption…

Neapolis Archaeological Park

The Neapolis Archaeological Park in Syracuse, Sicily, is one of the largest archaeological areas in the Mediterranean, symbolizing the city's expansion under Gelon in the 5th…

Selva di Malano

Selva di Malano is an archaeological site in the Cimini Mountains foothills between Soriano nel Cimino and Bomarzo in Lazio, central Italy. The wild woodland contains rock-cut…

Heraion at Foce del Sele

The Heraion at Foce del Sele is an archaeological site consisting of an Ancient Greek sanctuary complex dedicated to the goddess Hera in what was Magna Graecia. When built, the…

Nuragic Complex Romanzesu

Su Romanzesu is a major Nuragic sanctuary-village near Bitti, Sardinia, spanning over seven hectares on a plateau near the source of the river Tirso. Dating primarily to the Late…

Rocca San Felice

The Ansanto Valley (Valle d'Ansanto) near Rocca San Felice in Campania hosts a sanctuary dedicated to Mefitis, an Oscan-Sabellian goddess of waters, fertility, and the threshold…

Shrine of Hercules Curinus

An Italic and later Roman sanctuary near Sulmona in the Abruzzo region of Italy, built on two terraces from different periods. The lower terrace features a 71 m long podium in…

Timpone della Motta

The Timpone della Motta is a hill 2 km to the southwest of Francavilla Marittima in Calabria, Italy that was inhabited since the Middle Bronze Age. In the Iron Age the hill was…

Macellum of Naples

The Macellum of Naples was the macellum or market building of the Roman city of Neapolis, now known as Naples. Due to the rise of the ground level the macellum is now located…

Macellum of Pompeii

The Macellum of Pompeii was a provision market (macellum) situated on the Forum, serving as one of the focal points of the ancient city. The building was constructed in several…

Roman Forum

The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum, is a rectangular forum surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the centre of the…

Trajan's Forum

Trajan's Forum was the last and largest of Rome's Imperial Fora, designed by Apollodorus of Damascus and dedicated in January 112 AD. Built with spoils from the Dacian Wars, the…

Acropolis of Alatri

The Acropolis of Alatri in Lazio, central Italy, features precisely interlocking megalithic blocks without mortar.

Aqua Augusta, Naples

The Aqua Augusta (or Serino Aqueduct) was one of the largest and most complex aqueduct systems in the Roman world, constructed during the Augustan period around 33 BC. Unlike…

Area Archaeological Sa Mandra 'e Sa Giua

A Nuragic complex featuring a two-foil nuraghe with a main tholos tower backed by two secondary towers connected via an internal courtyard. The adjacent village contains circular…

Bolla Aqueduct

The Bolla Aqueduct was an ancient underground water system in Naples, constructed around 400 BC by Greek colonists. The structure extended approximately 10 km (6.2 miles),…

Cave di Cusa

Cave di Cusa or Rocche di Cusa was an ancient stone quarry in Sicily, Italy. It is located 3 kilometers south of the town Campobello di Mazara in the province of Trapani, Italy.…

Chiesa Paleocristiana di San Lorenzo-

The Early Christian Basilica of San Lorenzo is a church in Aosta, Italy, featuring a Latin cross plan whose arms terminate in apses of varying architectural types. The complex…

Cicerone Tower

The Torre di Cicerone is a fortified tower on the Acropolis of Arpino. It forms part of one of southern Lazio's most significant megalithic archaeological sites, featuring walls…

Crypta Neapolitana

The Crypta Neapolitana (Latin for "Neapolitan crypt") is an ancient Roman road tunnel near Naples, Italy. It was built in 37 BC and is over 700 metres long. The tunnel connected…

Dolmen of Chianca

Discovered on 6 August 1909 by Francesco Samarelli and Angelo Mosso, with further excavations by Michele Gervasio in 1910, the corridor-type tomb is nearly 10 metres long with a…

Dolmens of Sardinia

Sardinia hosts over 200 dolmens concentrated in the north-central part of the island, particularly around Nuoro, forming one of Western Europe's most important megalithic groups.…

Etruscan Pyramid of Bomarzo

A megalithic rock-cut monument carved from a single block of volcanic tuff near Viterbo, Italy. Dating to the 7th-6th century BC, the pyramid is believed to have served as an…

Greek Theatre of Syracuse

The Greek theatre of Syracuse lies on the south slopes of the Temenite hill, overlooking the modern city of Syracuse in southeastern Sicily. The theatron had a diameter of 138.6…

Grotta di Cocceio

The Grotta di Cocceio is an ancient Roman tunnel nearly a kilometre in length connecting Lake Avernus with Cumae and dating from 38-36 BC. It was burrowed through the tuff stone…

La strada Romana delle Gallie ed il suo arco

The Via delle Gallie is a Roman consular road built under Emperor Augustus. Near Donnas, Roman engineers carved a 221-metre stretch directly into the living rock through a rocky…

Lupanar of Pompeii

The Lupanar is the ruined building of an ancient Roman brothel in the city of Pompeii. It is of particular interest for the erotic paintings on its walls. The Lupanar is located…

Macellum of Pozzuoli

The Macellum of Pozzuoli was the macellum or market building of the Roman colony of Puteoli, now the city of Pozzuoli in southern Italy. When first excavated in the 18th century,…

Megalithic Wall, Gubbio

The ancient walls of Gubbio (Roman Iguvium) in Umbria, Italy, trace their origins to the Umbrian and Roman periods. The Iguvine Tables reference three city gates -- Trebulana,…

Megalithic Walls of Altamura

The Megalithic Walls of Altamura are defensive walls dating back to the 4th century BCE. They were the city walls of the ancient city of Altamura. Nowadays, only a few parts of…

Menhirs of Sardinia

Sardinia contains approximately 740 menhirs, locally called "perdas fittas" (embedded stones), dating primarily to the Ozieri culture period (c. 3500-2500 BC). They range up to…

Monte Baranta Megalithic Complex

Monte Baranta is a pre-Nuragic megalithic complex near Olmedo in northwestern Sardinia, dating to the Copper Age Monte Claro culture (2500-2200 BC). Its crescent-shaped fortress,…

Museo Campano

The Museo Provinciale Campano di Capua (commonly called Museo Campano) is a provincial museum in Capua, southern Italy. Established in 1870 and opened to the public in 1874, it is…

Naples Subterranean Structures

An extensive underground geothermal network and tunnel system lies beneath Naples and its surroundings, extending from Mount Vesuvius to include Pompeii and Herculaneum, and from…

Nuraghes of Sardinia

The nuraghe is the primary megalithic structure of ancient Sardinia, built during the Nuragic civilization that flourished between 1900 and 730 BC. More than 7,000 nuraghes have…

Nuragic Complex of Sa Sedda e Sos Carros

The Nuragic complex of sa Sedda 'e sos Carros is an archaeological site located in the territory of Oliena, in the Lanaittu Valley, in the province of Nuoro. The name in Sardinian…

Nuragic Village of Tiscali

Tiscali Village is an archaeological site situated in Sardinia, in the comune of Dorgali. It is situated within a large cave in Monte Tiscali. It consists of the remains of a…

Palazzo a Mare

Palazzo a Mare is a well-preserved ancient Roman archaeological site on the north side of the island of Capri, consisting of an imperial palace built by Augustus and modified by…

Pallanum - Mura Megalitiche (Paladine) di Pallanum

Pallanum is an archaeological site on Monte Pallano (1,020 m elevation) near Tornareccio in Abruzzo, Italy, featuring imposing megalithic walls in polygonal masonry dating to the…

Pantelleria Vecchia Bank Megalith

The Pantelleria Vecchia Bank Megalith is a 12-metre-long, 15-ton monolith of calcirudite limestone discovered at 40 metres depth in the Sicilian Channel between Sicily and…

Piscina Mirabilis

The Piscina Mirabilis (Latin for "wondrous pool") is an Ancient Roman cistern on the Bacoli hill at the western end of the Gulf of Naples, southern Italy. It ranks as one of the…

Poggioreale, Naples

The tuff blocks used in the 6th c. BC Greek age city wall of Neapolis were extracted from a vast quarry located in Poggioreale; it was identified by chance in 1987 following…

Polygonal Walls (Mura Poligonali)

The Mura Poligonali of Amelia in Umbria are extending over 2 km around the historic centre with walls reaching 6 metres in height and 3.5 metres in thickness. Built using large,…

Ponte Emilio

The Pons Aemilius (Ponte Rotto) is the oldest Roman stone bridge in Rome, originally built in wood and rebuilt in stone in the 2nd century BC. It spanned the Tiber, connecting the…

Portus Julius

Portus Julius was the first harbour specifically constructed to be a base for the Roman western naval fleet, the classis Misenensis. The port was located near Baiae and protected…

Pozzo Sacro del Predio Canopoli

The Pozzo Sacro di Predio Canopoli is a Nuragic sacred well in Perfugas, Sardinia, discovered in 1923 by landowner Domenico Canopoli and excavated by Antonio Taramelli. Dating to…

Pyramid of Caius Cestius

The pyramid of Cestius is an ancient Roman pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It was built in the style of the Nubian pyramids as a tomb…

Rione Terra

Rione Terra is a historic quarter in Pozzuoli, Italy, in the Phlegraean Fields region west of Naples. Rione Terra was originally a fortress for the settlement of Dicearkia founded…

Roman Theatre, Benevento

The Roman Theatre (Italian: Teatro romano di Benevento) is an ancient Roman edifice in Benevento. It was built in the 2nd century by emperor Hadrian near the city's cardo maximus…

Roman Walls

Sant'Agnello Maggiore

Sant'Agnello Maggiore, also called Sant'Aniello a Caponapoli or Santa Maria Intercede, is a church in the historical center of Naples. Excavations starting in 1979 showed that the…

Stabian Baths, Pompeii

The Stabian Baths are an ancient Roman bathing complex in Pompeii, Italy. They were the oldest and the largest of the five public baths in the city and centrally located at the…

Suburban Baths, Pompeii

The Suburban Baths are a building in Pompeii, Italy, a town in the Italian region of Campania that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The Suburban Baths were…

Teatro Romano

The Roman Theatre of Aosta (Teatro Romano) is an ancient theatre in the city of Aosta in the Aosta Valley, northern Italy, built during the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Its imposing…

Theatre Area of Pompeii

The theatre area of Pompeii is located in the southwest region of the city. There are three main buildings that make up this area: the Large Theatre, the Odeon (small theatre),…

Tunnels of Claudius

The Tunnels of Claudius consist principally of a 6 km-long tunnel (or emissary) together with several monumental service tunnels which Roman Emperor Claudius had built by 52 AD to…

Villaggio Bizantino

Rock-cut settlement near Calascibetta featuring cave dwellings, churches with colombariums.