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Aquileia admirable synthesis of Roman and early Christian

Aquileia with Cividale represents a milestone in the history spanning several centuries since the Augustan period and the medieval Christian paleo,

was founded by the Romans in 181 to C at the eastern end of the Veneto plain, not far from the sea, along the great river flowed Natisone at that time in the area. Initially

Aquileia, who had the simple role of the top position for offensive operations military against the barbarians, acquired over time a growing importance due to the trade and the development of a highly refined craft, to become one of the largest and richest city of the empire.

During the following centuries the city Aquileia acquired a new face and with the arrival of Christianity became a center of ecclesiastical organization, and then one of the great episcopal sees of Christianity.

The economic and social collapse of Aquileia in the year 452 after the siege began and the city was destroyed by Attila.

This is the story in a nutshell of Aquileia, rightly called the second Rome.

Items most important are the archaeological area of \u200b\u200bAquileia:

the Forum were located where the forensic basilica, shops and temples dedicated to the port divinità.Il

the burial, a Roman necropolis, located outside the defensive walls, fences characterized by five Funeral delimited by special walls.

the river fed by the waters of Porto Natisone, a very important time in terms of trade.

The complex of the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia is located off center with their core dell'Aquileia Roman building and a core made up of two classrooms by Bishop Teodoro Paleocristiane erected in the early fourth century and linked by a central corridor which initially took place on the rite of baptism by immersion.

The Patriarchal Basilica, which following the earthquake of 1348 was restored with assistance from the Gothic style has a Latin cross with three naves and three apses richly frescoed. The perfectly preserved mosaic floor has scenes from the Old Testament in which, unlike the catacombs of Rome, there is still a naturalistic style of Hellenistic matrix, though already fully adapted to the new Christian symbolism.

The mosaics are exceptional value for their interest in iconography.

can be accessed from the Basilica of the frescoes in the Crypt, with decorations Byzantine style, and the Crypt of the excavations, where you can still see the remains of the Paleo-Christian Basilica.

E 'exciting and important to remember that the October 26, 1921 in the Basilica of Aquileia was chosen the body of the Unknown Soldier, then transported to Rome and placed in the tomb of the Vittoriano monument in Piazza Venezia, on 4 November.