The discovery of a large number of items belonging to a villa of the Imperial period (1st – 2nd C. AD.) dates back to 1867: a small temple with marble statues, richly decorated rooms, mosaics and a room heated with a hypocaust system and three thermal pools.
The surviving rooms of this wonderful Roman villa, on the beach of Marina di Palo, stretch along the entire coastal area between the Palo forest and the Sanguinara stream.
In addition to the structures of the thermal baths and the residential quarters found in Piazza della Rugiada and in the previously mentioned oval pool on the seafront, one can still make out a large double aisled cistern (in via Albatros), a few pools and other masonry structures that have now been swallowed up by the sea.
































