In Via Visiale, between Via del Municipio and Via Saffi, stands the Casa Romana, located on a terrace immediately above that of the forum.
The first excavation campaign aimed at the discovery of the domus was carried out by the archaeologist Giuseppe Sordini from Spoleto between 1885-86, thanks to the funding of the English ambassador Sir John Lumley-Savile; however, due to lack of funds, we had to wait until 1912 to complete the recovery of the remaining rooms. During the excavation an inscription emerged bearing the dedication of a ...Polla to the Emperor Caligula and this has led to the hypothesis that the house belonged to Vespasia Polla, the mother of Vespasian, a native of Norcia and owner of property in the territory of Nursino-Spoleto. The domus has been dated to the first century A.D. and its rooms still preserve, besides the beautiful mosaic floors, the typical scheme of the patrician houses in vogue between the end of the Republican age and the beginning of the Imperial one.
