Santa Maria’s thermal baths

It is situated on a plane with the same name and was excavated in the 1980s; the building and the area around Santa Maria’s thermal baths show a “calidarium” (the heated room), probably dating back the I century A.D., and some ruins of the floor together with building materials (tiles, bricks, scraps of plaster, building stones).

The complex is studied in relation to a country house that occupied the plain and with some wall remains that witness the presence of a much bigger settlement in the same place.

The buildings were used as places of worship during the Christian ages. In this way it can be explained how the female figure of the I century A.D. here found and kept in the archaeological museum of Villasimius, was considered a portrayal of the Virgin before the scientific study.