MAGIONE DI SAN JACOPO AL TEMPIO
This complex retains, almost unchanged, the layout of its original hospital function. To the north of the church, a building extends, connected to it …
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This complex retains, almost unchanged, the layout of its original hospital function. To the north of the church, a building extends, connected to it …
On a tiny island in a lake, a curious little temple stands alone. Its plan is a studied eccentricity: a rectangular body capped with an almost-ellipti…
The Ex Collegio degli Scolopi is a curious piece of urban architecture, its granite-block façade on Piazza Mazzini suggesting an authority that its as…
The citadel of the ancient city and location of its Capitolium.…
In the Forum Boarium, Rome’s ancient cattle market, the Sacred Area of S. Omobono preserves a layered palimpsest of ritual life. Here, an archaic ritu…
A Mithraic shrine of unusual size discovered at modern Marino, Italy in 1963.…
On the bare, wind-scoured plain of the Abruzzo, the Temple of Peltuinum stands as a skeletal monument to Roman civic religion. It occupied the forum s…
At Sutri, the Madonna del Parto is a church with an older, stranger story beneath its floor. Carved into living tufa rock, it dates from the thirteent…
At the site of the Christian church of San Martino a Poggio in Frascole, a stips votiva was unearthed in 1887. Such deposits, collections of small, of…
A sanctuary of Hercules located in the territory of Teramo near the Vomano river.…
At the Sanctuary of Hercules Victor, Tivoli’s ancient piety is built on a grand scale. This second-century B.C. cult site was not a single building bu…
An Italic temple was identified in 1975 in the locality known as Porcareccia, Vacri (Chieti), Italy.…
The remains of the Sanctuary of Sol Indiges lie near Pomezia, a short distance south of Rome. The site’s earliest phase belongs to the last quarter of…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 19 E3 Calalzo…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 19 D3 Mechel…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 19 E3 Plöckenpass…
On the northern peak of the Schlern, a mountain in the South Tirolian Dolomites, a strange and ancient stillness clings to the rock. This is the Burgs…
On the Palatine Hill, overlooking the Circus Maximus, the Temple of Magna Mater stood as a curious Roman concession to a foreign, ecstatic cult. Dedic…
A little over an hour’s walk northeast of ancient Lavinium, a ruined stone structure sits in the landscape, its name, Tor Tignosa, recorded in the 17t…
An early cult center connected with Herakles located in Rome's Forum Boarium.…
On a field outside ancient Capua, the Santuario di Fondo Patturelli was first uncovered in 1845. For half a millennium, from the sixth to the first ce…
The ancient temple in the sacred area of Colle della Noce dates to the fifth and fourth century BCE.…
In a corner of an ancient Roman warehouse, a later occupant installed a shrine to Sabazius, a god whose cult arrived from the east with a strange, syn…
The Chiesa Ipogea di San Nicola is a paleochristian sanctuary of obscure purpose, tucked into the grounds of the Inviolata park in Guidonia-Montecelio…
The Manganello Sanctuary is located at the northern edge Caere's urban plateau.…
At the edge of a wood near Vetralla, the Macchia delle Valli sanctuary was uncovered in 2006, its discovery prompted by the depredations of looters. T…
The temple sacred to the god Apollo on the Palatine Hill in Rome.…
A complex of civic and sacred buildings in the urban area of ancient Caere, including the so-called "elliptical building".…
A sanctuary sacred to Jupiter located on the western slopes of Tifata Mons (Monte Tifata).…
An Etruscan settlement located in the Mugello valley.…
At the corner of Via del Pomerio and Via del Tempio Rotondo in Ostia, a 1938 excavation revealed a curious double-decker complex. The upper temple, bu…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 39 F4 Minerva Cabardiacensis…
The remains of a multi-period pre-Roman and Roman sanctuary.…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 39 D2 Riva S. Vitale…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 39 H2 S. Maria di Minerbe…
The Santuario di Pyrgi occupies a coastal site that was once the bustling port of an Etruscan city. Here, a sanctuary of twin temples rises from the e…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 42 C2 Castiglione del Lago…
At the headwaters of the Arno, the site of Le Ciliegeta was not a temple in the conventional sense, but a place of offering, a stips votiva, or votive…
Civita di Bagno is a small settlement with a long, layered history, its origins reaching back to the Roman Late Republican period. The modern town pre…
On a spur of Monte Rinaldo, the sanctuary of La Cuma overlooks a landscape that has shifted little in two millennia. What remains is a late Republican…
On a man-made terrace cut into the slopes of Mount Morrone, the sanctuary of Hercules Curinus commands a long view over Sulmo in the valley below. Thi…
*Incerulae, an ancient sanctuary site in the territory of the Vestini.…
Shrine dedicated to a rural divinity of the Sabina.…
Pieve di Sant'Antonino a Socana, a Medieval parish church, is built atop the remains of an Etruscan sanctuary.…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 42 E4 S. Anatolia…
At the heart of ancient Etruria, the Fanum Voltumnae was more than a temple; it was the spiritual and political fulcrum of a civilisation. Dedicated t…
A nuragic sanctuary centered on a sacred well that was in use from ca. 1200 to 700 BC.…
On the northeast flank of the Piana di Himera, a walled precinct holds the bones of four temples, A, B, C and D, likely raised to Athena. Their founda…
Campoverde (Lazio) lies some 60 km south of Rome. In 1977-1978 a quantity of votive material was recovered from a body of water known as the "Laghetto…
On the edge of the Appian Way, a modest brick shell stands where worshippers once sought the favour of Ceres, goddess of grain, and the deified empres…
The cult of the Dea Dia was tended by the Arval Brethren, an ancient college of priests whose rites are among the more mysterious survivals from archa…
A site sacred to Diana near Lake Nemi, comprised of a Tuscan-style sanctuary and a sacred grove.…
A sanctuary dedicated to Fortuna Muliebris along the Via Latina. Tradition holds that it was dedicated in 487 B.C.…
An important Latial sanctuary of Iuppiter located on Mons Albanus (modern Monte Cavo).…
Four kilometres west of Caere, along the monumental road to Pyrgi, lies Monte Tosto, an Etruscan and Roman site with a layered history. For decades, i…
The sanctuary of the god Robigus, located at the sixth mile of the Via Cassia. The Romans celebrated the festival of Robigalia on 25 April.…
At the edge of Lavinium, thirteen weathered altars lie in a long, solemn procession, their stones bearing witness to centuries of Latin worship. This …
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 43 E3 no. 61 (cult place near Trerus fl.)…
The remains of an Italic temple, in the locality known as "Pié di Francia". The sanctuary dates from the fourth to first centuries B.C.…
On the Janiculum Hill, beyond the usual tourist’s gaze, lies the Lucus Furrinae, a sanctuary that once hummed with the strange, syncretic pulse of Imp…
Angitiae Lucus refers to the grove of Angitia, a divine figure of the Marsi tribe.…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 44 E4 Apollo et Nymphae Nitrodes, T.…
On a hillside near Atessa, in the Chieti province, lies the remnant of a small Italic sanctuary, likely dedicated to Vejovis, an obscure Roman god of …
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 44 G2 Colle Sparanise…
At Campochiaro, in the rugged terrain of the central Apennines, a substantial fanum once stood, a temple dedicated to a deity recorded as ‘Herculis Ra…
A sanctuary of Feronia located at a spring on the via Appia near Tarracina.…
Marica, an Italic goddess, was worshipped in a sacred grove located between Minturnae and the estuary of the Liris river.…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 44 E2 Monte del Fico…
An ancient sanctuary on the slope of Monte Saraceno in the modern Italian comune of Pietrabbondante.…
At Pyrgi, the Etruscan coast yields a rare and eloquent fragment of ancient Mediterranean life. This was once a busy port, a place where Etruscan ship…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 44 G2 Roccaspromonte…
Site of a small Samnitic sanctuary atop Colle Rimontato (709 m. a.s.l.)…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 44 E2 Scanno…
On a spur of the Monti Ausoni, looking out over the Tyrrhenian Sea, the terraced sanctuary of Iuppiter Anxur once commanded both the landscape and the…
A pre-Roman site in the valley of the Sangro river that was later converted to a Christian church.…
A sanctuary of the Pentrian Samnites on the flanks of Monte Capraro, north of the modern Italian village of Vastogirardi.…
A fourth to third century B.C. sanctuary at Tarquinia.…
A Roman sanctuary in use from the first century B.C. through fifth century A.D.…
A rural sanctuary in the territory of Poseidonia (Paestum) has been excavated at S. Nicola di Albanella.…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 B4 Capaccio…
Remains of a fourth-century B.C. sanctuary situated at a spring known as Caput aquae, from which the modern toponym is most likely derived.…
At modern Casalbore, the archaeological record reveals the bones of a substantial temple, a structure whose stones speak of the shifting currents of p…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 C1 Drion…
The Grotta Trinità, a cave sanctuary near Ruffano in southern Italy’s Lecce province, has drawn human activity since the Neolithic period. Its endurin…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 B1 Lincietti…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 B3 Mefitis…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 B2 Oscata di Sopra…
On the Piano dei Tivoli, an unassuming plateau in the Italian countryside, archaeology has turned up something more than just scattered sherds. Excava…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 E4 Pizzica…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 G4 Porto Cesareo…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 B4 Roccadaspide…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 C3 Ruoti…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 45 G4 Torricella…
A sanctuary of Zeus Aglaios located west of Metapontum.…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 46 F3 Hera, T.…
An ancient sanctuary of the Aventine Hill in Rome.…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 E4 Arcia di Niscemi…
A fortified ancient settlement near modern Lentini. It has been associated with the area of Monte San Basilio.…
At the edge of a Sicilian plain, the ruins of Camarina speak in layers of ash and stone. Founded by Syracuse in 599 B.C., this Greek colony was destro…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 D4 Casalicchio…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 E4 Feudo Nobile…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 E4 Fiume di Mallo…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 G3 Francavilla di Sicilia…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 C3 Grattauli…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 C3 Mandra di Mezzo…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 E4 Marchito…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 D4 Mollarella…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 D4 Monte Poliscia…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 G4 Olympieion…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 47 E4 Pietra Rossa…
In Rome’s via delle Quattro Fontane, beneath the grandeur of Palazzo Barberini, lies one of the best-preserved mithraic shrines in the city. Discovere…
On the eastern slopes of Sicily, the Rocchicella hill holds the remains of Palike, an ancient settlement that once centred on a sanctuary to the Divin…
A rock-cut altar dating to the first half of the sixth century B.C.…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 48 B2 Fanum Carisi…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 48 B2 Nemus Sorabense/Sorabile…
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 48 A3 S. Salvatore di Cabras…
At the foot of the rocky spur that holds Breno, the river Oglio slides past a place that has drawn the devout for millennia. The Sanctuary of Minerva …
On the Quirinal Hill, one of Rome’s ancient summits, stood a sanctuary to Semo Sancus Dius Fidius, a deity whose name unites the Sabine word for ‘bloo…
The Sanctuary of the Bona Dea at Ostia dates to the republican period (second century BCE?) and was renovated in the second century CE.…
A cave located at the foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome in which the she-wolf was said to have been found suckling the twins, Romulus and Remus.…
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