by Rome. Over the centuries, sieges, earthquakes, floods, and pillaging of the ancient buildings for materials mean that no edifices of the Roman period remain above ground. The site of Aquileia, believed to be the largest Roman city yet to be excavated, is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Excavations, however, have revealed some of the layout of the Roman town such as a segment of a street, the north-west angle of the town walls, the river port, and the former locations of baths, of an amphitheatre, of a Circus, of a cemetery, of the Via Sacra, of the forum, and of a market. The National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia contains over 2,000 inscriptions, statues and other antiquities and mosaics, as well as glasses of local production and a numismatics (coins) collection. Others In the Monastero fraction is a 5th-century Christian basilica, later a Benedictine monastery, which today houses the Palaeo-Christian Museum. Notable people Pope Pius I is believed to have been born at Aquileia during the late 1st century. Saint Chrysogonus was martyred here in the beginning of the 4th century. Twin towns – sister cities Aquileia is twinned with the following settlements: Piran, Slovenia Maria Saal, Austria See also Schism of the Three Chapters Aquileian rite Councils of Aquileia List of Aquileia Bishops and patriarchs Acaste Bresciani Notes References General references Catholic Encyclopedia Neher in Kirchenlexikon I, 1184–89 De Rubeis, Monumenta Eccles. Aquil. (Strasburg, 1740) Ferdinando Ughelli, Italia Sacra, I sqq.; X, 207 Cappelletti, Chiese d'Italia, VIII, 1 sqq. Menzano, Annali del Friuli (1858–68) Paschini, Sulle Origini della Chiesa di Aquileia (1904) Glaschroeder, in Buchberger's Kirchl. Handl. (Munich, 1904), I, 300-301 Hefele, Conciliengesch. II, 914–23. For the episcopal succession, see P. B. Gams, Series episcoporum (Ratisbon, 1873–86), and Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi (Muenster, 1898). External links Aquileia virtual tour (Italian Landmarks) Pre-Roman and Celtic Aquileia Explore the Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia in the UNESCO collection on Google Arts and Culture Aquileia featured on 10 Euro Italian Coin World Heritage Sites in Italy Populated places established in the 2nd century BC States and territories established in the 2nd century BC 180 BC 180s BC establishments Roman sites of Friuli-Venezia Giulia Coloniae (Roman) Destroyed cities Former populated places in Italy Domini di Terraferma Razed cities