The road route between the ancient churches of San Martino di Albenga and S. Croce di Alassio is one of the most suggestive and best preserved stretches of the ancient Iulia Augusta road, the road opened by Emperor Augustus between 13 and 12 BC to connect, through a coastal route, the Po Valley with Gaul and Spain.
Along the ancient road, the ruins of at least seven buildings of the Roman imperial age are overlooking, dating between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. While it is not possible to specify the nature of two of them, the remaining five can certainly be interpreted as tombs. Of these, one is a columbarium, the others are funerary enclosures, true family graves.
Information about Funeral Monuments of the via Iulia Augusta
Zona Monte – via Antica Romana Iulia Augusta
17031 Albenga (Savona)
01027181 – 0102718202
https://www.archeoge.beniculturali.it
Source: MIBACT
