This is one of the most important among the numerous villas found in Tossa’s municipal boundary. It is also known as Villa Vitalis, due to the owner’s name during the end of the IVth century  or the beginning of the Vth century.

While the other villas disappeared during the Ist century, the Ametllers villa survived, enlarged and rebuilt, until the VIIth or VIIIth century, at which time the area was abandoned and part of the property was used as an inhumation necropolis.

Considered as one of the most important and interesting rural villas in stage of excavation along the Mediterranean coast of the Tarraconense province, it consists of two parts, the urban and the rustic, following the patterns of the Roman essayists. The remains of a thermal group, a hippocaust, mosaics, a lacus and the base of a press, among others, make evident the value of this establishment.

The fragments of mosaics and stucco reveal the wealth of this villa, and the ceramic vases give evidence of an uninterrupted commerce with all the Mediterranean world during the Roman period. The agricultural tools, fishingtackle and loom tools reveal agricultural and sea activities: wheat, wine, oil and salted fish, which was exported by trading ships. Other objects such as hairpins, small spoons and bone and ivory stylus remember the everyday life.

All these finds are exhibited in the archaeological section of the Municipal Museum.