In 1989, during road works in Piazza Ferrari, an excavator accidentally went too deep. The amazement of the experts who arrived at the site was immense when the walls of a Roman building began to appear, then mosaics, coins and medical instruments. In reality it is a complex of Roman origin that over the centuries has also been used as a vegetable garden, church, cemetery, as evidenced by the 30 tombs with skeletons still visible. The most beautiful structure is the villa inhabited until the second century AD by a certain Eutyches (Eutiche), a military doctor of Greek origin who must have seen all sorts of things. His collection of 150 surgical instruments, in fact, was specialized in war wounds and traumas, including a very rare Diocles’ Spoon, which was used to extract arrowheads stuck in the body. In the villa the beautiful mosaics are still perfectly visible, including that of Orpheus in the "medical office" of the surgeon of Rimini. Thanks to walkways that walk over the mosaics and the foundations of the complex, it is possible to retrace the architecture and history of this house. To complete the visit it is essential to visit the Museum of the City of Rimini (see point 5) where instruments and other exhibits are housed and where it is possible to admire the original scale reconstruction of the rooms of the domus.
