Continued From Kos Part IV A few kilometers outside both the modern and ancient city of Kos, is the Asclepieion complex. It is located just southwest of the village of Platani, off Agiou Dimitriou. The site doesn’t have an address, really, but it is well signposted from Kos and the main east-west road on the…
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Continued From Kos Part II Roughly 350 meters east of the odeon, down Leoforos Grigouriou V, on the south side of the street is the Casa Romana. In the summer the site is open from 8:00 to 20:00 and is closed on Tuesdays. In the winter (November through March) it is open from 8:30 to…
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Continued From Kos Part I Just to the south of the stadium, on the south side of Panagi Tsaldari, is the Western Archaeological Zone (Δυτικός Αρχαιολογικός Χώρος) of Kos. There is an entrance to this area right at the corner where Panagi Tsaldari goes from a north-south street to an east-west street. The Western Archaeological…
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Most Recent Visit: July 2021 Located just 5 kilometers off the coast of mainland Asia Minor (modern Türkiye) and about 18 kilometers from the famous city of Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum), at the entry of the Sinus Doridis/Sinus Ceramicus (modern Gulf of Kerme) is the island of Kos. According to myth, the founder of the settlement…
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Continued From Colonia Caesar Augusta – Part I Just a block away, on the next street to the north of the theater, is the Museo de las Termas Públicas de Caesaraugusta. These are located at the Calle de San Juan y San Pedro 7. These share the same opening and admission scheme as all the…
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Most Recent Visit: July 2024 The site of Colonia Flavia Scupinorum, often shortened to Scupi, is located on the north bank of the Axios (the modern Vardar), a few kilometers outside the modern capital of North Macedonia; Skopje. The immediate area of the settlement has produced archaeological evidence suggesting the location had been inhabited since…
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Continued From Colonia Ulpia Traiana Part II Roughly 85 meters southwest of the Römische Schiffswerft, nearly at the next intersection is the Limespavillion, a thematic exhibition about the Roman army generally as well as the Roman limes in the vicinity of Colonia Ulpia Traiana. There are lots of helpful maps and information on legionary camps…
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Continued From Juliobriga Part I There are a number of interesting and relevant smaller, ancillary sites to visit within about an hour of Juliobriga. I managed to see all of them along with Juliobriga in the same day (with the main archaeological site sandwiched right in the middle), so it makes for a nice full…
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Most Recent Visit: July 2022 In 29 BCE, Augustus began a campaign in the northwestern part of Hispania to attempt to pacify the last remaining populations not more or less submitting to Roman hegemony on the peninsula; the Cantabri and the Astures. The bloody ten year long conflict saw the Romans not taking prisoners and…
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Continued From Beneventum, Samnium – Part II Just to the west of the cathedral, a little ways down Via Carlo Torre, is the Area Archeologica Arco del Sacramento. The archaeological remains in this park are those of a bathing complex, located in the vicinity of the forum of ancient Beneventum. Though impressive looking, the archaeological…
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