Aguntum

The ruins of Aguntum are an historic Roman website in East Tirol, Austria, placed approximately four km east of Lienz inside the Drau valley. The town seems to had been built to take advantage of the neighborhood sources of iron, copper, zinc and gold. During the early Christian generation the town became the web page of a bishopric, which, having ceased to be a residential diocese, is today listed by means of the Catholic Church as a titular see.

This place of East Tyrol changed into the fatherland of the Laianci tribe and hilltop settlements, to this point hardly investigated, crown a number of the hills inside the location. A buying and selling vicus advanced here at an critical intersection in the Drau Valley, with one crucial street main to the gold deposits in the Hohe Tauern. The oldest Roman remains are a -roomed timber structure found underneath the bath house and dated to the mid-first century BC. According to Pliny the Elder, the emperor Claudius granted Aguntum the fame of municipium, a status that is attested via inscriptions, including funerary inscriptions, which consult with cultores Genii municipii Agunti. The legit call was Municipium Claudium Aguntum.