Egnazia

Egnazia, the largest archaeological site in Puglia, near Fasano, was a Messapian city first and later a Roman city. Its port was used to travel to the beginning of the Via Egnazia, an ancient east-west communication route that connected the lower Adriatic to the northern Aegean and Black Sea.

Topics covered:

the city in the Messapian and Roman ages and late Antiquity
the roads and their relationship with the sea
political power and community life, public and residential construction, artisan production
sacred places and the cults, up to the advent of Christianity

Egnazia

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