timetable: Open on Saturday and Sunday from 15 to 18 -free entrance- tel. 0039.0184229507
Archeological Ventimiglia (on the eastern side of the modern town) dates back to Roman times. In this veritable open-air museum one finds an arena with the first level of steps still intact, the "porta di Provenza" (gate to Provence), insulae and domus, baths and mosaic floors. All this is evidence of a golden age for the Roman city, the time of municipium cum suffragio, when Ventimiglia was the administrative centre of a larger district which included a number of other towns ("ville").