Welcome to the Roman fortress “Sexaginta Prista”!
Sexaginta Prista is situated in the northwestern part of the city of Rousse, on the bank of the Danube river.
Recent studies show that the fortress existed in IIIrd century B. C., where the Thracians performed mysterious rituals and cult practices.
The name “Sexaginta Prista”, translated as “The port of the 60 ships”, the fortress received in connection with the events at the end of the Ist century A. D., when a Roman legion, consisting of 6000 people, loaded on exactly 60 ships, was transferred to the mouth of the Roussenski Lom river.
The remains found in this ancient and sacred place testify that the fortress was inhabited by different peoples and cultures – Thracians, Romans, Byzantines. Sexaginta Prista was also an important strategic fortification for the Bulgarian kings of the First and Second Bulgarian Kingdom.
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