The archaeological area in Nervia houses the remains of the Roman city of "Albintimilium", a maritime and agricultural center built in the late Republican age along the Via Julia Augusta, on the remains of a primitive settlement of Ligurian culture called "Albium Intemelium" and considered in the Augustan organization as the last administratively Italic city. It preserves traces of the ancient walls, streets and some public and private monuments.

In particular, the remains of the Baths and the Theater, dated between the II and III centuries, can be visited. AD, which is the best preserved example of this type of public building in Liguria and one of the most notable in all of Northern Italy.

In the Antiquarium , in support of the visit, a rich selection of finds is exhibited following excavations carried out since the end of the nineteenth century and in part still in progress. The exhibition is divided into sections that describe the different monuments and aspects of the material culture of the inhabitants of "Albintimilium" (Theater, Baths, the toilet, daily life, the world of the dead, the economy and trade).