Aquileia was one of the largest cities of the Roman Empire and of the liveliest communities of the early Latin Christianity. It was the most important port on the Adriatic Sea and the starting point of the main commercial, cultural and military routes towards North and Eastern Europe. For more than a century, Aquileia, founded by the Romans in 181 B.C., has been giving its treasures back: the luxurious monuments of the Imperial city, the wonderful mosaics of the Basilica, of the basement Oratory, the small every day objects.
Nowadays Aquileia is a little town in Northern Italy of about 2,500 inhabitants between Venice and Trieste that, since 1998, has been inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
In 2008 after a Regional Law of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and an agreement State-Region on the cultural heritage of Aquileia, four public bodies (the Italian Ministry for Culture, the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Province of Udine and the Municipality of Aquileia) decided to constitute the Fondazione Aquileia (www.fondazioneaquileia.it), the institution in charge of the management of the archaeological site of Aquileia. In 2009 the Archdiocese of Gorizia joined the partnership.
Fondazione Aquileia not only deals with the management and conservation of the given areas, but it also promotes and finances research and excavations activities aimed at restoring artefacts and grounds.
Since its foundation, Fondazione Aquileia has deemed it highly important to establish relations and partnerships with other European archaeological parks in order to exchange best practices and share information.
Contacts:
Fondazione Aquileia
www.fondazioneaquileia.it
via Patriarca Popone, 7
33051 Aquileia (UD)
Italy
Contact person: Marco Marinuzzi - European policies and international relations
e-mail: europa@fondazioneaquileia.it
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