Tag: roman-empire

  • ROMAN CANNE IN APULIA – Cannae

    The ‘Must see’ – The battlefield It is one of the most famous battles in Ancient history and it is still described in military textbooks: on the 2nd of August of 216 BC, on the plains near the Adriatic coast of Apulia, in southern Italy, Carthaginian commander Hannibal Barca’s outnumbered forces crushed a massive Roman…

  • ROMAN AQUILEIA -Aquileia

    The ‘Must See’ – The MAN, more than a museum Founded in 181 BC for defensive and commercial purposes, Aquileia soon became one of the main Roman ports on the Adriatic Sea, a great cosmopolitan city at a crossroads of religions and cultures. This city in the North-eastern region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia is only 10 km.…

  • UNEXPECTED ROME Tombs of Via Latina

    Romans buried their dead outside city walls. This tradition, inherited from Etruscan and Greeks, was also a practical measure to avoid the spread of disease. Burials were forbidden within the city’s pomerium, a sacred boundary that separated Rome from the rest of Italy. This is why many tombs lined the roads just outside Rome, with all…

  • ROMAN OLBIA Olbia

    The ‘Must see’ – Roman ships in the Archaelogical Museum Military supremacy of the seas was crucial for Ancient Rome: its powerful naval fleet, developed in the Punic wars against the Carthaginians, became a perfect war machine. Propelled by both sail and oars, Roman ships had multiple levels of rowers, from the fast and maneuverable…