Along the ancient Via Iulia Augusta, this Roman mansio once offered travellers rest and fresh horses. But the site’s true story unfolded later, when an Early Christian complex rose beside the road, a basilica, a baptistery, and a cemetery that would see centuries of use. The baptistery’s font, carved from a single block of stone, still hints at the rituals of conversion performed here as the Roman world gave way to the medieval. The cemetery’s layered graves, stacked and repurposed over time, speak of a community that endured through Lombard incursions and shifting allegiances. Today, little remains above ground but foundations and scattered stone, yet the place retains a quiet gravity. It is a palimpsest of faith and travel, where the journey of the body and the journey of the soul once converged on a dusty coastal road.
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