The Archaeological Park currently covers an area of about 10 hectares, in the area where the ancient settlement once stood. Designed with a non-traditional layout that envisages its progressive, future expansion over the entire ancient urban area (about 85 hectares), it is intended as a center for multiple activities and interests. The vast unexplored area, designated as green space, functions as a typical park-garden, where visitors can spend leisure time in a natural setting restored for enjoyment. The visitable archaeological part covers an area of about 500 square meters: the excavations have brought to light a part of the city identified, for the Roman period, as the center of Picentia, founded in 268 B.C. Part of a wide road axis (9.00 meters wide) oriented East-West is visible, connected to at least two narrower perpendicular road axes; these define two residential blocks (insulae), within which construction phases dating from the 3rd century B.C. to the 5th-6th century A.D. have been identified, the period marking the city’s final abandonment. Very limited are the remains of the pre-Roman settlement on which Picentia was built: these are some structures dating back to the 4th century B.C., discovered beneath one of the insulae.
Information about the Urban Archaeological Park of Ancient Picentia
Via Stadio
Pontecagnano Faiano (Salerno)
+39 089 383202
Source: MIBACT
