After the excavations in the fifties, this area was acquired by the Provincial Administration of Salerno and was arranged as a park showing off the most important remains of the buildings brought to light.
About half of the area is covered by the remains of buildings dating back from the 6th century b.C., when this important pre-Roman centre was born. In it Etruscans, Greeks and natives, a very complex ethnic group, lived together as is evident from epigraphic documentation, preserved in the Museum of Salerno, as well as from all the other finds.
Moreover the imposing ruins of the necropolis of the Samnite period (at the end of the 4th century b.C.) are preserved together with eight tombs made by blocks of local grey tufa, of which two include a room with funeral beds also equipped a pillow. They present a triangular or cylindrical section.
In the western area a cistern, clay settling tanks, a furnace, wells and canals, together with paved rooms, confirm the activity of local clay working, uninterrupted from the 6th - 5th century b.C. to the 5th - 6th century a.C., which is testified by sleekers, spacers, dies and machine shop rejects.
The yearly excavations are allowing to articulate the chronological sequence in the area more completely. Some materials of the 8th century have been already brought to light and in this area some elements of the urban organisation of the 6th century b.C. are being outlined with an everincreasing clearness.

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