Complesso di Capo di Bove - Parco Archeologico dell'Appia Antica

About

Capo di Bove overlooks the IV mile of the Via Appia Antica, a short distance from the Mausoleum of Cecilia Metella. It is a green area with a main building on three levels and a smaller one inside. When the property was put up for sale in 2002, the MIC decided to purchase it by exercising the right of first refusal, given the archaeological interest of the area. After the purchase, an excavation was carried out in the garden, which brought to light a thermal plant from the mid-2nd century AD with building phases up to the 4th century and traces of agricultural-productive use referable to the late ancient period, when the area was part of the Patrimonium Appiae (a vast agricultural estate owned by the Church). Of the thermal baths there remain decisions of environments, mosaic and colored marble floors, hydraulic tanks, stains of the coverings in marble slabs and painted plaster. The main building houses the Cederna archive and library.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 1 hour 30 minutes