{"id":90081,"date":"2021-02-24T19:09:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=odkrycia-rzymskie&#038;p=90081"},"modified":"2021-02-24T19:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T18:09:32","slug":"bulgarian-archaeologists-discovered-luxurious-roman-road-station-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"odkrycia-rzymskie","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/discoveries\/bulgarian-archaeologists-discovered-luxurious-roman-road-station-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian archaeologists discovered luxurious Roman road station in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/discoveries\/in-bulgaria-polish-archaeologists-discovered-fragment-of-document-confirming-granting-of-roman-citizenship\/\">In Bulgaria<\/a>, in the vicinity of the Roman fort Sostra (near the present city of Troyan, central Bulgaria), in 2014, archaeologists found traces of a Roman luxurious road station (<em>mansio<\/em>).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The road station was located on <em>Via Traiana<\/em> &#8211; the main ancient artery that allowed the Romans to lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wojny\/wojny-dackie-trajana\/\">conquest of Dacia under Trajan<\/a> (101-102 and 105- 106 CE). The road connected the ancient city of <span class=\"aCOpRe\">Philippopolis<\/span> (present Plovdiv in southern Bulgaria) with two Roman outposts on the Danube River: Ulpia Oescus and Novae, which guarded the northeastern <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/limes\/\">limes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest excavations show that the road station covered 500 square meters. The walls of the building have survived to our times; up to 2 meters high. Interestingly, the building had a floor heating system &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/hypocaustum-podgrzewane-podlogi-i-centralne-ogrzewanie-rzymian\/\"><em>hypocaustum<\/em><\/a>, a large swimming pool, pipes and thermal baths. Other swimming pools of this type were found in the vicinity of the road station, which can be said to be a large bath complex. It could have been a stopover, an inn and a spa in one.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists emphasize that these types of ancient road stations were similar in nature to today&#8217;s gas stations and motels.<\/p>\n<p>As researchers emphasized a few years ago, it was planned to apply for consent and funding for the partial reconstruction of the road station and the creation of a tourist attraction from this place. However, I have no more information about the current work at this site.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-90081 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/antyczny-basen-w-okolicach-sostry.jpg'><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/antyczny-basen-w-okolicach-sostry.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Ancient swimming pool near Sostra\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-90079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/antyczny-basen-w-okolicach-sostry.jpg 768w, https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/antyczny-basen-w-okolicach-sostry-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/antyczny-basen-w-okolicach-sostry-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-90079'>\n\t\t\t\tAncient swimming pool near Sostra\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":90077,"template":"","class_list":["post-90081","odkrycia-rzymskie","type-odkrycia-rzymskie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/90081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/90081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}