Due to time pressure we missed Pompeii and Herculaneum. We found Saepinum instead! It was wonderful to walk on the paved roads, visit the forum and walk around the houses without crowds. To see the remnants of Roman masonry robbed out of context and inserted into the buidlings erected at the edge of the Ampitheatre in the late Middle Ages... More

Sepino - Altilia houses the remains of what used to be a Roman fortified town. On the ruins of the Forum and the greek-style theater over the centuries the locals built their homes, using materials from the abandoned roman settlement and producing houses that literally grow out of the ruins, in a combination that closely resembles the medieval buildings perched... More

We were in Sicily and Italy the past 3 weeks; the last couple of days were spent with cousins in Bojano. The day before we were due to leave our cousin took us to Sepina, an old Roman fort with four gates that includes the remains of an ampitheater, cells for prisoners and animals, gladiator chambers, an area of shops,... More