> Home > What to visit > Archaeological Sites


Visualizza sulla mappa

Tomba Lattaia Cetona

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES

Tomba Lattaia

SUGGEST ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS
To receive more information on this site or to send corrections and additions to the subject complete the form below:










PHONE NUMBERS AND TIMES

Tomba Lattaia


Business card (vCard)


The Hole or Milk Tomb is a cave that unfolds for about hundred meters. The reason for the cave’s name comes from the fact that to the water that drips from its sides have been attributed miraculous virtues; that is, that if drunk by mothers while breast feeding their babies , it increases the abundance of the milk secreted. Archeological excavations have detected on the surface or not so far in depth, evidence of the Roman period (first century), that consist mainly of an altar consecrated to the divinities of the milk waters, with many ex votoes in clay; very small vases, fragments of swaddled babes, representations of breasts , etc.....and also bronze coins , that testify the faith in the healing virtues of the water mentioned above, at least up to that particular period. (Santi, 1798; Calzoni, 1940; 1941, Corrain and al., 1967).

STAY NEARBY

SANREMO

CHIANCIANO TERME

L'Hotel Sanremo è situato al centro della cittadina ed in prossimità delle T...

CRISTALLO

CHIANCIANO TERME

Top class, newly-built hotel, owned by a family who have been hoteliers for generations. T...

Agriturismo IL SERRAGLIO

MONTEPULCIANO

Il casolare ristrutturato si inserisce in un paesaggio caratterizzato da colline, viti e u...

DINING & ENTERTAINMENT NEARBY

Teatro Povero

PIENZA

Il progetto del Teatro Povero nasce e si sviluppa a Monticchiello molto prima della precis...

UCI Cinemas

SINALUNGA

Cinema multisala inaugurato nel 2003 dotata di 9 sale con maxischermo....

Teatro del Concordi

MONTEPULCIANO

Il Teatro della Società dei Concordi è si trova nella frazione di Acquaviva ...