A Roman villa site near Rieti known initially from several cryptoporticus structures. More recent excavations have revealed a series of rooms, including some with mosaic pavement.
The ancient city of Elea / Velia was said to have been founded by Phocaean Greeks in the sixth century B.C. and then became an ally of Rome in the third century B.C.
An important city of South Etruria located north-northwest of Rome, Veii was eventually sacked by the Romans in 396 B.C. The ancient city covered some 180 ha.
An ancient city of Etruria and the leading city of the doudecim populi Etruriae, Tarquinia (called Tarch(u)na or Tarchna in Etruscan) was a major urban center of ancient Italy.
Sybaris was an ancient city of Magna Graecia founded as an Achaean colony as early as 720 B.C. on a plain drained by both the Crati and Sybaris rivers.
The village of San Casciano dei Bagni, located south of Siena, Italy, has been frequented since at least the first millennium BCE on account of its thermal springs with supposedly healing properties.
An Etruscan city captured by Rome in 294 B.C., Rusellae's >2 mile circuit of megalithic walls represent an important early instance of stone fortification walling in the Italian peninsula.
The ancient settlement of Pontecagnano is located on the plain of the Sele river, about 4 km from the sea. Settlement begins in the Chalcolithic period. The Early Iron Age sees the arrival of people identified as Villanovans who originated in South Etruria, initiating a proto-urban phase of the settlement covering some 80 ha.
A city situated on the Tyrrhenian seaboard and likely of Etruscan origin. Its early nature was that of a mercantile center. The city became a Roman colony in 89 B.C.
An ancient settlement of the Veneti, Patavium became a Roman municipium in 45 BC. It was the birthplace of several famous Romans including Titus Livius, Valerius Flaccus, Asconius Pedianus and Thrasea Paetus.
Volsinii Veteres was one of the most powerful and important cities of Etruria, as it was the location of the important federal sanctuary located at the Fanum Voltumnae.
The Etruscan settlement of *Hurta (the modern Orte) was close to the Vadimonis Lacus where the Romans fought, and won, two engagements against Etruscan armies.
Norba, located in the Monti Lepini, was a member of the Latin League (ca. 499 B.C.) and became a Latin colony ca. 492 B.C. The city was destroyed in the early first century B.C.
Founded as Parthenope by Greeks in the eighth century B.C., the site eventually gave rise to Neapolis in the sixth century B.C. and was one of the most prominent cities of Magna Graecia. Modern-day Naples, Italy.
The remains of a villa were excavated near the church of San Pietro ad centum muros in the nineteenth century. Based on epigraphic evidence, the site is connected with M. Vipsanius Agrippa.
The Roman-period remains at Massaciuccoli, including luxury villas, baths, and productive areas, are connected with the influential Venulei family. Perhaps of Etruscan origins, the Venulei are also to be linked with Pisa.
An ancient settlement of the Sallentini in Apulia. Legendary history held that this was the spot where Aeneas first landed in Italy, thus the assignation 'Limen Aphrodites' or 'Portus Veneris'.
A settlement of Apulia that originated with the Samnites and Frentani and later came under Roman influence. During the Second Punic War, the Romans defeated Hannibal at Larinum. The settlement eventually gained Roman municipal status.
Forum Novum was a Roman town and an early medieval bishopric. It is located in the Sabine hills and was likely founded as a market center during the Republican period. It had achieved the status of municipium by the first century A.D. The market center seems to have remained active until at least the fourth century and by the fifth century, a bishopric is established there.
The ancient station of Cosa lay along the road from Toulouse to Cahors near the Aveyron river. It was a significant site from the time of Augustus onward.
Volsinii, also referred to as Volsinii Novi, is thought to be the settlement where Rome resettled the survivors of the Volsinian rebellion of 264 BCE. This episode is discussed by Zonaras (8. 7. 8). A late republican center at Bolsena, Italy, with civic architecture (forum) and domus has been excavated since 1946 by the École Française and is identified as Volsinii Novi.
A city of the Po Plain with important cultural phases related to Etruscan, Celtic, and Roman culture. Important evidence for the Iron Age Villanovan culture has been found in Bononia and its vicinity. The Romans established a Latin colony of 3000 settlers at Bononia in 189 BC. After changing hands several times following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Bologna became an important Medieval center.
Arretium (the Etruscan Aritim) was one of the duodecim populi Etruriae and described by Livy as one of the "Capitae Etruriae". The Romans captured the city in 311 B.C. and it became a station on the via Cassia.
A town of the Aequi along the Marsic frontier where the Romans established a Latin colony in 304/3 B.C. Alba Fucens was a significant center of the middle republican period and became a place where Rome kept state prisoners, including Syphax of Numidia, Perseus of Macedonia, and Bituitus, king of the Arverni.
