/ ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
/ Bagni di Nerone (Baths of Nero)
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3904 [/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The Bagni di Nerone (Baths of Nero) are located in Largo del Parlascio (a term that meant for the Germans bear fighting place) near Porta a Lucca (Gate to Lucca), opened in 1546 and decorated with a…
/ Tumulus of the Etruscan Prince, via San Jacopo
[SEZIONE] [ITINERARI]3906 e 3913[/ITINERARI] [CORPO] The Etruscan burial mound of via San Jacopo is part of a very large necropolis that went, in a non-continuous manner, from via del Brennero to Barbaricina, from north-east to north-west. Known as…
/ Nero's Baths and Excavations in Via Galluppi
The spa at Porta a Lucca, traditionally known as terme or "Bagni di Nerone", are situated in what must have been the north-western sector of the town in Roman times, now just inside the medieval walls between the S. Zeno Abbey and Cathedral. The…
/ The Etruscan Tomb at San Jacopo
This is is a complex system of funeral monuments centering on a large tumulus or mound measuring thirty metres across. Around it, beyond a circle of steles (stones) are simpler burials inside small dolias (vases) positioned directly on the ground…
/ Cathedral Place - Archaeological Excavations
During the last seventy years numerous archaeological campaigns have been carried out in Piazza del Duomo. The enormous quantity of data gathered on these occasions has enabled a voluminous chronology of frequentations of the area to be built up,…