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This small town is - plainer than Neapolis - drawn in on the Tabula Peutingeriana.
No stores, streets or public buildings were found until today however. A theory presumes therefore, that it is a question of the old port of Cornelia Veneria Pompeianorum. It is however rather probable that it was a question of residences of the rich Romans.
Two villas were laid open systematically at least. One of them can be visited. Because in that a vase with the inscription "Secundo Poppaea" (servant of Poppaea) was found, it is not to be excluded that this villa belonged the family or the lover itself from Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar (Nero).
Nearly
the whole living space was laid open. The house has two peristyles, a garden and two atria.
The bath
has a
frigidarium,
tepidarium and
caldarium. Among that are
still some other rooms
existing.
Just next to the
natatio
is an ambulatory with some smaller rooms.
Nearly all rooms
have paintings in the
second and in the third
Pompeian style
. Some decoration elements of various stone materials are also
existing.