The audio guide was produced in collaboration with UniTre Cecina A.P.S. We would especially like to thank Luisella Ragoni (Vice President UniTre Cecina A.P.S.) and Sally Tunley (native speaker and English teacher at UniTre Cecina A.P.S.) for their helpfulness and professionalism, which were essential to the creation of this new tool for accessibility to Cecina's archaeological heritage.
The Roman Villa of San Vincenzino is an astounding example of a large patrician villa (approximately 7000 square meters), divided in sections each of which of different use – from the residential rooms to the part devoted to the economic production – and it has experienced ongoing remodeling throughout its long life (from 1st century BC to 5th century AD. approximately). It stands on a rise once called “Poggetto al Fico”, on the left bench of the river Cecina not far from the sea. The residential complex was built in such a way as to constitute a pleasant place to stay …
Between the end of the 2 nd and 3 rd centuries AD, contemporary with the summer triclinium(dining room) and the monumental fountain in the center of the garden…
Originally (approximately 30 BC – 70 BC) here stood the residential quarters of the villa. Between the end of 1 st century and the beginning of the 2 nd century AD…
At the center of the garden in the large colonnaded peristyle are the remains of a fountain. It was built in a secondary phase of improvement of the villa (late …
In the first phase of the villa (50-30 BC) in front of you there was an atrium (about 100 square meters). In the center of the atrium, as often happened in Roman villas, there …
The first architectonical intervention on the villa was the building of a big underground cistern for the collection of rainy water with a provision tunnel and a series …