Celtic-Ligurian settlement

The name of “Chieri” comes from the Celtic root “Karr”, changed in the Roman Age to the official double name “Carreum-Potentia”, as mentioned in the list of towns made by the Roman historian Pliny the Elder in the middle of the 1^st Century A.D. We know very little about the first Celtic-Ligurian settlement (4^th century B.C) which was most likely located on the terraced slopes of the Rocca di San Giorgio. Remains of a hut and an area for baking ceramic pots have been found during archaeological investigations conducted in via Visca. Other traces emerged during excavations in via Palazzo di Città and in the smaller vicolo Tre Re.