Lugnano in Teverina borders the following municipalities: Alviano, Amelia, Attigliano, Graffignano.

[4] It was built in the late 1st c. BC when it included large room (oecus) with supporting columns and a unique flat-top pyramidal ceiling; the foundations and soil of the hill could not support the great weight leading to collapse of the colonnade and other southern rooms around the early 2nd century AD; in the early 3rd century, walls and support buttresses were built to try to stop further slippage but from this time the villa began to fall into ruin although it was still partially occupied; in the mid 5th century many rooms were reused as a cemetery for at least 47 children up to 3 years old who died perhaps of malaria.

Other sights: Nearby is the site known as the "Children's Necropolis", dating to the mid-5th century AD.

These burial practices, such as inserting a stone into the mouth of the deceased, have been interpreted as means to prevent the rising of the dead.

Modern research has indicated that many of the burials were victims of malaria, a disease whose origins were unknown until the 19th century.