Sirmione, Grotte di Catullo

The Grotte di Catullo are located on the tip of the peninsula, where there are the remains of a big Roman villa. It was built in early Imperial times and is the largest Roman villa uncovered in north Italy measuring 167 by 105 m.
In the Villa a Museum has been opened. It keeps many finds recovered in excavations, in submerged lake-dwellings along the peninsula shore and in other settlements of the area. The most recent theory proposes that the villa may have been where the Roman Emperors, on their journeys around the northern provinces, met the most important political, civil and military leaders of the day.