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...
Between the end of the 2n d and 3 rd centuries AD, contemporary with the summer triclinium(dining room) and the monumental fountain in the center of the garden, the baths were built.Of considerable size (approximately 640 m2) and with a good architectural design for a...
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 approximately, this section was radically transformed: here found its place a productive plant: of...
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 2nd - early 3rd century AD) - like the spa and the summer triclinium with...
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 was a large pool of around 40 square meters (impluvium, unfortunately...
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 of wells used to draw surface water. The access to it is through a ladder realized about...
In the Archaeological Museum of Cecina are collected numerous examples of artifacts and archaeological finds from the surrounding area of the Lower Valley of Cecina River. The exhibition, with its pieces displayed either in chronological and topographical order, aims to represent, in an easily understandable way,...
The exhibition itinerary starts with Room I and the display of the most ancient prehistoric finds: the first tools made out of flint and jasper made by the Paleolithic Man, which testify the occupation of the territory along the coast ( ca. 700.000 - 10.000...
In the next room (Room II) are shown finds from the Iron Age (9-8 century BC), in particular one example of the distinctive cone-shaped Villanovian ossuary from one of the most important necropolis of Volterra (Necropolis of Guerruccia), which testify the beginning of the Etruscan...
The next sections (Rooms III-IV) is dedicated to the Necropolis of Casa Nocera, a complex of ten burials belonging to a single family group who lived in Casalvecchio (an Etruscan settlement) near Casale Marittimo, a small hill town near Cecina, between the end of the...
