On Saturday, guided tours were carried out at the large archaeological site, located at the ENAV Radar Tower in Ravenna, near the SS16 junction for Classe, organized by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena and Rimini, in collaboration with Snam Rete Gas and the archaeological company GEA.
This is an excavation site originating from the preventive archeology procedure conducted for the works of the Ravenna sea – Ravenna land methane pipeline commissioned by Snam, subsequently expanded for the passage in adherence and parallelism of the methane pipeline connecting the BW Singapore regasification ship, which will enter in operation off the coast of Ravenna in 2025, and the national gas transport network.
The excavation activities, started in July 2023, are still ongoing and extend over a rather large area. Numerous structures have been brought to light, in a good state of conservation, attributable to an extra-urban villa equipped with a spa system and dating back to the beginning of the Roman-Imperial age. On the levels of destruction of this imposing building it was then built in the 5th-6th century. AD a church, of which the plan with the wall foundations and some floor fragments are still clearly visible.
«A very important archaeological discovery, which adds a further piece to the history of the Classe area – explained the Superintendent Federica Gonzato –, born from public needs and from the application of the preventive verification procedure of the archaeological interest, foreseen by the legislation ».
