At Torretta Vecchia, along the Emilia, Highway SS 206, which corresponds with the Roman Via Emilia, was a
mansio (a rest and refreshment halt), where government couriers and travellers could find lodgings and
inns to sleep and eat and stabling for their horses, thermal baths, and medical and police services.
It is possible to visit a spacious courtyard with porticoes, which lead to rooms with mosaic floors, and
two richly decorated thermal baths.
The complex was built in the first half of I BC at the time the road was constructed and remained in use
until the mid-VI century AD.
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