Archaeological Site San Pietro degli Schiavoni

Under the new Verdi theatre, in the heart of the historic centre, there is the very important archaeological site of the neighbourhood San Pietro degli Schiavoni, which represents a real cross-section of Brindisi during Roman period.

The name of the site comes from a small church dedicated to San Pietro, which was here during the 17th century, but of which there are no traces, while Schiavoni is the name of the Greek-Albanian  people who lived here during the 16th century.

The site was discovered during the 60s, during the excavation works to build the new theatre and as soon as the first ruins came to light, they found old Roman domus.

A paved street runs through the whole site, from North to South, and along both sides it is possible to see the houses and in particular the thermal baths, in which one can admire the different areas of which it was made of: the calidarium and the frigidarium.