RESTI DELLA CINTA URBICA DELL'ANTICA SEGUSIUM

The north-western segment of Segusium’s Roman city wall, caught between Porta Savoia and the modern piazzas, survives mostly as a ghost within later buildings. Like so much of the original circuit, it has been absorbed, repurposed, forgotten. Only scattered stretches remain recognisable, woven into the fabric of the bishop’s seminary and the Cathedral of San Giusto.

In the seminary courtyard, where the wall turns towards Corso Trieste, a substantial fragment endures: twenty metres long, rising six to seven metres from the present ground level, three metres thick. The builders used roughly dressed stone and recycled brick, set in thick mortar beds. The facing is regular in pattern but eclectic in material; no trace remains of the original plaster or waterproof rendering. A lower reinforcement, about a metre and a half high, juts out slightly, connected to the upper wall by a diagonal fill of pebbles and pale mortar.

Two blocked openings are visible. The northern one, cut diagonally through the ancient masonry, is framed by large squared blocks and finished with a pointed arch in reused brick.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.