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Encyclopedia Britannica



URBS SALVIA (mod. Urbisaglia)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 793 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
URBS SALVIA (mod. Urbisaglia) , an ancient town of Picenum, Italy, about 8 m. S. of the modern
Macerata
 , and to m. S. of Ricina. It was the
meeting
 -point of several ancient roads; the road leading
south
  from Ancona through Ricina and Falerio to Asculum was crossed here at right angles by that from Fanum to Tolentinum, Septempeda (S. Severino) and Nuceria Camellaria, while another led north-
east
  from Urbs Salvia to Pausulae and the
coast
  at Potentia (near mod.
Porto
  Recanati). It seems to have been also called Pollentia. The date of its foundation is unknown, but it became a colony in the time of Trajan, and its importance seems to begin from this period. It was utterly destroyed by Alaric, and both
Procopius
  (B.G. ii. 16, 17) and Dante (Paradiso, xvi. 73) speak of its desolation. The arx is occupied by the modern
village
 ; below it consider-able remains of the city walls and of the buildings within them, alike of brickwork of the imperial period, are preserved an
amphitheatre
  328 X249 ft., with an arena 190 X 112 ft., a theatre, baths, tombs, &c. A subterranean aqueduct and a number of
inscriptions
  have been found on the site. Close by is a little chapel with paintings of the early 16th century. The Romanesque abbey church of the Fiastra, about 3 M. to the north, is noticeable. The territory of Urbs Salvia probably extended as far as the old Romanesque church of S. Maria di Rambona, 8 m. to the north-west.


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