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Altinum is the only large Roman town in Northern Italy and one of the few in Europe where medieval towns were not built on top of them. This makes archaeological research easier and allows remote sensing surveys to be carried out.
Aug 1, 2009 · Aerial photographs taken during a drought two years ago have enabled Italian researchers to produce the most detailed map ever of the ancient Roman city of Altinum, considered by some...
1,500-Year-old lost Roman city of Altinum rises again as aerial maps reveal detailed street plan. This had been one of the Roman Empire’s richest cities. But when the mighty Germanic Emperor Attila the Hun started his assault in AD452, Altinum’s inhabitants began their great escape and fled.
Nov 23, 2021 · Altino, or Altinum to say it with the Romans, was an ancient city roughly corresponding to modern Quarto d’Altino, in the Venezia province of Veneto. Altino was favored by its position, straight on the Venetian lagoon and the sea, which made it important for commerce and military maneuvers.
Altinum was an ancient town of the Veneti 15 km southeast of modern Treviso, close to the mainland shore of the Lagoon of Venice. It was also close to the mouths of the rivers Dese, Zero and Sile. Photo: Cervellin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
ALTINUM (Altino) Veneto, Italy. A city in the territory of the Veneti (Ptol. 3.1.30) near the Sile river, along the coast NE of the Laguna di Venezia. At first, a center of the Veneti, the city became a Roman municipium enrolled in the tribus Scaptia and reached its period of greatest prosperity during the first centuries of the Empire.
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Jul 30, 2009 · From the ground, a 100-hectare site just north of Italy's Venice airport looks like nothing more than rolling fields of corn and soybeans. But it's actually home to a buried Roman metropolis called Altinum, considered the precursor of ancient Venice.
