📷 Boris Hamer · Pexels
Where in the world
Austria
Carnuntum
Roman · Austria
Field notes
- civilizations
- Roman
- types
- City · Amphitheatre
- occupied
- 10 BCE — 400 CE
- country
- Austria
The site
Carnuntum began as a Roman legionary fortress on the Danube and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet, later becoming capital of the province of Pannonia Superior. At its height it was a city of some 50,000 inhabitants, complete with an amphitheatre. Its impressive remains spread across an archaeological park in Lower Austria, roughly halfway between Vienna and Bratislava.
