Velia Archeological

• Distance from the campsite: 52,9 Km
• Travel time: 57 m
• Category Archeological Zone
• Scavi di Velia, Contrada Piana di Velia, Ascea Marina(SA)
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• The ancient Elea-Velia was built around 540 BC thanks to the exiles from the Greek city of Phocaea, in Turkey in 88 BC became a Roman municipality. The city occupies an area of about 90 hectares and was organized by neighborhoods connected by roads, crossings, ports. Of the ancient city, where there remains considerable traces of the Acropolis is a settlement with a number of houses, shortly after the Acropolis is intended as a place of worship, a sanctuary of Athena and perhaps other districts are created of homes scattered on the slopes and terraces of the hill . To the two districts, North and South, matched two ports who performed different functions. Dates back to the third century the theater of the Acropolis and a small spa building in the valley. Along the ridge at the western end of the acropolis walls small shrines, places of worship, altars, votive plaques some evidence of the cult of Poseidon, Zeus, Kairos, Asclepius, Athena, Demeter, Hera, Persephone. For the Roman period belong two thermal cryptoportico, that is a public building built in the first century. B.C. perhaps based medical school, gymnasium or fitness for youth. Hours: MON-SUN, September to April, from 8.00 to 17.00, from May to August from 9.00 to 18.00