The Roman Amphitheater of Vasto, located in the heart of the city under Piazza Rossetti, represents one of the most important archaeological remains in Abruzzo. Although it is not completely visible due to subsequent urban stratifications, its presence is still tangible, and tells a fascinating piece of Roman history. Dating back to the end of…
In via Anelli, from number 90 to the end of the road at the intersection with via Sant’Antonio, the wall at the base of the modest houses that overlook it is free of plaster and reveals a curious alternation of bricks and squared stones laid in a rhomboidal: a roman insula. It is a fragment…
The Roman Baths of Vasto are famous for two large mosaics discovered during excavation campaigns in 1974 and 1997. The first mosaic, known as the Marino Mosaic, measures approximately 38 square meters. It was initially unearthed in 1828 during work near the convent of San Francesco, then a royal sub-prefecture. At the time, it was…
At the southern limit of the Loggia Amblingh, where the walls of Vasto once ended, two large Roman cisterns are still visible, which today have been opened towards the promenade and transformed into a characteristic restaurant. Probably built in the first century AD, they were part of a group of six cisterns that guaranteed the…