- Maria Paola Baglione –
Figure 30.1 Aerial view of the territory of Pyrgi; to north, the castle and area of the Roman colony; to
the south, the two sanctuaries on the seashore. (Googlemap).Figure 30.2 General plan of archaeological area.In the fi rst half of the nineteenth century, Luigi Canina, the Roman architect to whom we
owe considerable studies on the territory of Caere, speculated that the sanctuary arose in
the area enclosed by the “Pelasgian” wall circuit belonging to the Roman colonia maritima;
only the excavations have made possible the evaluation of the whole archaeological area
of Pyrgi, stretching for more than 800 meters from the Castle to the sanctuaries, along a
north-south axis. (Figure 30.3).