Vicus Caprarius - La Città dell'Acqua
Museum · Trevi, Italy
An underground archaeological area beneath the buildings on the side of Piazza di Trevi facing the fountain, presented to visitors as La Città dell'Acqua.
History
Excavation at the end of the 1990s, during restructuring and consolidation work, uncovered traces of an insula of Neronian date fronting the Vicus Caprarius, converted partly into a patrician domus in the middle of the 4th century and partly into a large cistern collecting the Acqua Vergine. Remains of 12th- and 13th-century buildings were found above and partly overlying them, and traces of that urbanisation survive in the medieval portico on the side of the square facing the fountain. The area is reorganised and open to visitors.
No hours are given here. The site publishes its own at vicuscaprarius.com, and the hours we found elsewhere came from crowd-sourced mapping data rather than from the site itself.
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