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The complex settlement of Volcei is now retraceable thanks to the establishment of the Urban Archaeological Park which was inaugurated in 2003, with the intention of connecting and making accessible in a visit itinerary the most important ancient monumental emergencies of major importance inserted largely in the fabric of the current center of Buccino.
The ancient city, which at the end of the 4th century B.C. was equipped with an imposing wall made of travertine blocks, is known above all in its Roman age: it had a terraced layout and a network of streets arranged in herringbone pattern on the sides of an East-West axis which, unchanged over time, represented the main street crossing the city (today's Via Roma); the forum, the main square, is to be located near the current Piazza Amendola.
Among the monuments that can be visited today along the paths of the Park are the temple of Via S. Spirito, known as Caesareum, and the block of Via Canali, in which a public building with a nave and two aisles with mosaic floors was built during the Imperial Roman period.
