Terme romane di Santa Venera al Pozzo
The Roman baths at Santa Venera al Pozzo are a study in layered stone and purpose. What remains is not a single building but a palimpsest of three con…
1920 documented Roman sites across Italy, each with real history, a location, and (where available) a photo. A sample below; the full set travels with you offline in the Atika app.
The Roman baths at Santa Venera al Pozzo are a study in layered stone and purpose. What remains is not a single building but a palimpsest of three con…
Catania’s Roman thermal baths. A surviving complex of heated rooms and water channels in the city centre, typical of the public bathing culture that d…
The Terme romane dell'Indirizzo, in Piazza Currò near Catania’s cathedral and Castello Ursino, are among the city’s several Roman bath complexes, alon…
A Roman bath complex in Italy, known as the Terme della Rotonda. It is a surviving example of the public bathing culture that characterised the Roman …
These are the scant remains of a Roman structure, though its original purpose is now stubbornly unclear. The surviving fragment is in a state of ruin,…
The Santuario di San Giovanni Paolo II, in the hamlet of San Pietro della Ienca, is the first sanctuary dedicated to the late pope. This medieval moun…
Six Roman hinges, part of a set, survive as a study in sturdy, functional design. Each is a long, trapezoidal plate with one inner edge folded into an…
On the southern slope of Montevergine, the ancient acropolis of Katane, the Odeon sits beside the larger ancient theatre, part of a single monumental …
In Catania, Sicily, the Complesso Archeologico del Teatro e dell'Odeon preserves two Roman theatres side by side. The larger theatre is a semicircular…
The Area Sacra del Cofino, in the heart of Vibo Valentia, was once a substantial sanctuary complex. Today, its remains speak of centuries of shifting …
A Roman church in Tuscania. It is one of several medieval religious buildings in the town.…
Albiano, a frazione of Minucciano in Garfagnana, sits at the crux of two valleys, facing the Lunigiana. The 19th-century geographer Repetti described …
A Roman church in Italy, known as Terme della Regina. It is a site from the Roman period, though its precise history and original dedication remain un…
In the western arm of Veleia’s forum portico, roughly halfway along, a marble table stands between two columns. The top is a single rectangular slab, …
A Roman fortress in Rocca Imperiale, Italy. This type of fortified structure was typical of the period's military and administrative presence across t…
The Santuario diocesano di San Giovanni Paolo II occupies a small stone hamlet called Les Combes d’Introd, now renamed Lieu dit du Saint Père, isolate…
Il complesso si snoda lungo un tratto di costa caratterizzato da due promontori. Sul promontorio nord, che si eleva a 20.10 m s.l.m. lungo la prima cu…
At first glance, C.A.R.S.I.C looks like a Roman building that has been through the wars, and indeed, the centuries. Its plan is a composite of two dis…
A Roman balneum in Italy. These were small-scale bathhouses, distinct from the vast public thermae, often serving a private villa or a small neighbour…
A palazzo in Rome, on the Via della Conciliazione. It is a Roman palazzo, a type of urban residence built for the city's noble families.…
Edificio in muratura continua con solai piani…
On a hill above the Ionian coast, Siderno Superiore is a spontaneous borgo, its medieval layout shaped by the ridge it occupies. The settlement’s root…
Blocco pertinente alla struttura del Teatro Romano…
The Tomb of the Siren, a Roman funerary monument, presents a broad, slightly tapering rectangular façade, topped by a projecting cornice and a relief-…
La necropoli preromana dei Liguri Apuani sorge ai piedi della collina di Costa Celle lungo la sponda destra del fiume Magra. Individuata e in parte di…
A fragment of Roman wall, part of an ancient gate, stands embedded in the modern fabric of Cosenza. One segment is now absorbed into the building hous…
The Santuario di Maria SS.ma di Romania in Tropea is a co-cathedral elevated to a diocesan Marian sanctuary in 2002. Its origins lie with the Normans,…
A palazzo on five levels, two of them semi-basements, with a rectangular plan and a continuous masonry structure of plastered stone. Its pitched roof …
Ravenna is a Roman archaeological site in Italy. The remains here are typical of a Roman provincial settlement, offering a general sense of the era’s …
The name Foro Romano usually points to Rome, but these notes describe the main square of the Roman city of Mediolanum, modern Milan. Built in the firs…
At Ussana, the church of San Lorenzo is built into a Roman thermal complex, a palimpsest of stone and brick where one civilisation’s leisure became an…
On the slopes of San Domenica hill, in località Santa Croce, a sprawling Roman maritime villa once commanded the coastline. Covering 7,000 square metr…
The ancient city, as revealed by excavations that have uncovered it from the eighteenth century to the present day, presents the appearance it had in …
In the eastern approaches to Naples, a fragment of Roman engineering endures, stubborn and elegant. This aqueduct bridge, the Acquedotto dei Ponti Ros…
Amantea’s historic centre is a town shaped by its castle. The fortress, perched high on the crag, dictated the layout below: two ancient quarters, Cat…
Nell'area sono stati rinvenuti resti di un relitto di epoca romana e numerose anfore vinarie di tipo Dressel 1B…
Maringianu is a palimpsest of stone. Here, a Bronze Age nuraghe of four angular towers, linked by straight curtain walls, rises from the Sardinian soi…
The campanile of the Cattedrale Maria Santissima Assunta in Cielo already Santa Maria del Parco stands apart from the present church, a detached tower…
On a rocky Roman roadside, the façade of Tomb 14 at P. Stanziale is carved directly into the living stone. A broad arched niche, nearly two and a half…
In the south-western corner of Velia, at the foot of the acropolis hill, the Roman baths make a quiet but emphatic statement about civic life. The sit…
San Giovanni is a nuraghe of the simplest type: a single tower, raised from roughly hewn basalt blocks. A courtyard wraps around its northern and east…
On the western ridge that frames Sanremo’s hinterland, Monte Caggio holds a commanding position. Visible from many surrounding valleys, it maintains d…
In the Domus III of the ex Vescovado, a house built in the Augustan age and substantially remodelled at the end of the first century AD, the tricliniu…
This is a Roman site, but what survives at Podere Fuga II° is not a temple or a bathhouse. Instead, it is a rectangular, two-storey farmhouse, its roo…
At Podere Fuga I°, a rectangular Roman structure rises two storeys above the Italian earth, its hipped roof crowned by a central dovecote. Detached ag…
Sermezzana, a frazione of Minucciano in Garfagnana, sits at the centre of a valley that looks out towards the Lunigiana. It is a place of ancient orig…
A Roman villa in Italy. The villa type is a common feature of the Roman countryside, typically a rural residence with agricultural outbuildings.…
On a high spur of the Tyrrhenian coast, Belvedere Marittimo’s historic centre follows the land’s contours with a defensive logic that is still legible…
CARATTERIZZAZIONE DEL TERRITORIO: Tortora, adagiata tra il Litorale Tirrenico e l’Appennino Calabro, è il primo centro cittadino della costa calabro-t…
At Rocca Imperiale, the medieval hilltop is folded tight beneath the vast outline of a Frederickian fortress. The castle was the original pole of urba…
Rossano’s historic centre, now part of the municipality of Corigliano-Rossano, spreads across a rocky spur commanding the plain and the sea, its deep …
Perched high on a terrace overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, the historic centre of Vibo Valentia has worn many names: Hipponion for the Greeks, Valentia…
On a slope of the Roman Campagna, the thermal complex of San Basilio survives as a fragmentary but telling relic of civic life. Its outer walls and ce…
Porta Palatina is a Roman gate in Turin, Italy. It dates from the Roman period. Gates of this type once formed part of the city’s defensive walls.…
At P. Grezzano, a Roman columbarium tomb is cut into an inaccessible rock face, its entrance a mere 63 centimetres wide, set low on the right. Rough s…
This is a Roman funerary bed, a piece of furniture designed not for sleep, but for the long, still journey of the dead. Its Latin name, lectus funebri…
On a modest spur of the eastern ridge above Sanremo, Monte Colma is an awkward, scrubby hilltop, its slopes dropping away steeply on all sides but one…
The Ponti Rossi district of Naples takes its name from the red brick arches of an ancient aqueduct, the Acquedotto dei Ponti Rossi, and its second bra…
The Teatro Umberto I is a late example of the Italianate opera house tradition, its horseshoe-shaped auditorium rising through three tiers of decorate…
Il borgo si presenta policentrico: la costruzione della Chiesa Matrice collocata alla fine di Via Roma in Piazza Cotantinopoli, può aver originato, in…
La città è un grande centro agricolo, commerciale e industriale situato su un promontorio tra i due rami del porto interno si estende per circa 80 ett…
Salerno’s historic core, the centro storico, stretches along a low, sandy coast before climbing the slopes of the hills behind to its oldest quarter, …
San Marco Argentano’s historic centre follows the land’s contours, a dense weave of districts, brick-built noble houses and episodes of medieval life.…
This is a Roman funerary bed, or lectus funebris, a piece of furniture designed not for sleep but for the solemn display of the deceased. In Roman cus…
The Palazzo del Collegio Romano is a palazzo in Rome, Italy, dating from the Roman period. It is one of the many civic and institutional buildings of …
The Villa romana di Casignana, also known as the Palazzi di Casignana, is an extensive and luxurious Roman villa on the Calabrian seashore, near the a…
At Santa Maria Bangiargia, the pasts of Roman leisure and medieval devotion occupy the same ground. Here, the ruins of a Roman bathhouse, a typical fe…
Blocco pertinente alla struttura del Teatro Romano…
On a commanding ridge above the Ligurian coast, the site called Croce di Padre Poggi occupies a natural stronghold, the first substantial rise on the …
Varignano Vecchio is a Roman villa in Italy. It is one of many such rural estates from that period, which often combined agricultural production with …
Just south of the city, this stretch of the Salento countryside bears quiet witness to a far older order. Scattered finds and rescue excavations, prom…
Atika’s eye is drawn to this square stone tower, rising four storeys above the surrounding landscape. Its vertical structure is of partly plastered ma…
A Roman church in Italy. It is a building of its period, typical of the region's early ecclesiastical architecture.…
This is a Roman-period monastery in Italy, now housing the I.P.S.I.A "Ercole I° d'Este". Roman monasteries of this era were often repurposed or adapte…
Edificio a pianta rettangolare ad F con cortile; scale a rampe di servizio per i vari piani; muratura in pietra di tufo; solai piani con travi in legn…
This is a Roman palazzo in Italy. Palaces of this period were typically large urban residences for wealthy families, designed to display status throug…
In the Calabrian hill town of Caulonia, once called Castelvetere, and before that the ancient Kaulon, the medieval borgo clings to its steep topograph…
This is a Roman-period borgo, a fortified hilltop settlement known historically as Vua. It is one of several defensive, mid-slope coastal centres in t…
Siracusa is a Roman archaeological site in Italy. It is a significant example of Roman urban planning and architecture in the region.…
Napoli è una metropoli costiera di origine molto antica, con un'economia di tipo postindustriale, caratterizzata dalla prevalenza del terziario; l'ind…
The ancient hill town of Acerenza, known to the Romans as Acheruntia, is a tight knot of stone, built for defence and perched high in the mountains of…
Atika Bisignano’s historic centre is a medieval settlement that grew at the foot of the Motta hill, where the castle of the Princes of Bisignano once…
Aiello Calabro clings to the inland hills of the Tyrrhenian hinterland, a small town whose character was shaped by the very rock beneath it. The settl…
Along the coast of the Sibaritide, the historic core of Roseto Capo Spulico occupies a defensive ridge, its spontaneous layout a legacy of its Roman o…
The hilltop centre of Grotteria still wears its medieval bones, though a late nineteenth-century road, now Corso Gramsci, was driven straight through …
Città collinare di antichissime origini, capoluogo di provincia, la cui economia è proiettata verso tutti i settori dell’economia. Il territorio comun…
Under the grand eighteenth-century staircase of this vast palazzo, and deep in its cellars, lie the remnants of Turin’s eastern gate. The Porta Decuma…
In the Roman world, Baiae was a byword for luxury and leisure, a coastal resort where the patrician class escaped the heat and politics of Rome. The a…
This grand Roman domus, named for its lavish painted plasterwork, occupies some 1,300 square metres south of the Forum. Inhabited without interruption…
At P. Felceto, a Roman tomb carved into the rockface has broken away from the cliff behind it and slipped a little downhill. The façade, only slightly…
In the necropolises of ancient Italy, tombs were often carved directly into the living tufa rock, creating doorways to the underworld that mimicked th…
Off the coast of Marzamemi, beneath the Sicilian sand, lies an extraordinary Roman-era shipwreck. Discovered in the 1960s, this site yielded not the u…
On the north-western slopes of Monte S. Croce, where the ridge divides the Crosia and Nervia valleys, a Roman site clings to the hillside. The name co…
Necropoli di Albintimilium, Tomba 145 This tomb is a study in Roman pragmatism and piecemeal building. The ground here was uneven, a natural depressi…
The remains of Pollenzo’s Roman amphitheatre are a lesson in pragmatism. This was no free-standing, arcaded giant, but a ‘solid structure’ type: only …
The Compendio archeologico della città romana di Veleia is the archaeological site of an ancient town in Emilia, about 15 kilometres south of Piacenza…
This is a Roman cippus, a monumental marker, carved from a single block of red Veronese marble. It stands on a cubic base, its south face bearing an i…
G.I.L. is a palazzo in Italy, from the Roman period. It stands as an example of the civic and monumental architecture that characterised the era.…
On level ground overlooking the lake, this chapel follows a design familiar from its predecessor, begun four years earlier. The square atrium, intende…
Insediamento caratterizzato da margini fisici artificiali, situato a nord-ovest rispetto a Foggia. Presenta funzioni di culto, produttive, artigianali…
The historic centre of Montalto Uffugo, a hilltop borgo in Calabria, is a place best navigated by its compartments. Twenty-one distinct quarters, each…
The historic centre of Mormanno unfolds across four hills, a settlement pattern that speaks to centuries of organic growth. The oldest quarter, to the…
On the north-west slope of the Fosso dei Valloni, where the valley opens towards the Torrente Americano, sits Mendicino, a Roman-era borgo whose origi…
At the summit of a steep ridge in inland Basilicata, the abandoned borgo of Romagnano al Monte, known locally as Romagnano al Monte Vecchia, sits enti…
Conca dei Marini’s historic core, like others along the Amalfi Coast, keeps its distance from the sea. This was prudence, not petulance: pirate raids …
The old core of Corleto Monforte is a fortress without quite being a fortress. The medieval wall, built in the 11th century, was high and robust, but …
In Roman times, this coastal settlement was known as Reginna, later distinguished as Reginna Major to set it apart from its smaller neighbour, Minori.…
Teggiano sits alone on a high plateau above the Vallo di Diano, a position that has preserved its ancient character while other towns in the valley su…
Centro costiero, ubicato in pianura e di origine antica. Il centro storico di Castro conserva quasi inalterato il suo aspetto medievale. L'area è circ…
Il suo sviluppo demografico e urbanistico fu modesto fino alla seconda metà del sec. XIX quando, superato il perimetro delle mura, ebbe luogo l'espans…
Morano Calabro A medieval map etched in stone. This hilltop town clings to its rocky spur with the tenacity of a fortress, its buildings rising in ti…
On a sharp ridge above the right bank of the Crati river, Rose is a medieval hilltop borgo that once bore the ancient names Arentha and Aratha, record…
In Dinami, the historic core is a tangle of spontaneous medieval lanes, with one exception: the orderly Rione Palazzi, where the civic tower, known as…
Centro collinare di origini antichissime: ancora oggi lo sviluppo urbanistico è legato all'antico assetto della città romana. All'ingresso è l'ex conv…
Capri is an ancient island centre, a famously refined seaside resort cradling a thriving tradition of artistic craftsmanship alongside a robust rural …
This is a Roman house of the Italic type, its plan organised around a central atrium. Enter through the vestibule, where a limestone threshold still b…
On the low, sun-baked slopes near Santu Teru, Senorbì, a scatter of ancient fragments tells a quiet story. Gathered in the late 1970s and early 1980s …
Le prime tracce di utilizzo del sito di Egnazia risalgono alla prima metà del II millennio a.C., quando si forma un piccolo insediamento costiero sul …
The Roman town of Herculaneum was never a vast metropolis. Enclosed by walls, it is thought to have covered some twenty hectares, of which only about …
At the top of Monte Luna, prehistoric traces linger: fragments of huts, obsidian blades, and the rock-cut chambers known as domus de janas, all from a…
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