the days of Roman city of the main Today 'Liguria were (starting from the South): Luni, along the Emilia Scauri the mouth of the Magra, an important port where they were loaded marbles which we now call "Carrara" Aurelia began and where the Ligurian (see post on) Genua (Genoa), seat of the Roman fleet in the north Tyrrhenian Sea, where the famous Agrippa built a palace now under the church of S. Maria delle Grazie to the old port; Vado Sabatia (Vado) where it joins the old Emilia Scauri, continuing along the Ligurian coast dell'Aurelia (as road) and start to Julia Augusta Narbonne Gaul, as well as important trading port; Albintimilium (Ventimiglia) in Today I'm talking about. Formerly known as Albium Intemelium , was, together with Albenga (Albium Ingaunum), one of the most important places of the Ligurian primitive: "City of Intemelia," as says its name. Founded in ancient times and developed as a maritime center and agricultural centuries earlier in Rome, was initially a bastion of independence in front of the Ligurian to the Greeks of Marseille, which had colonized the coast of Provence until Monaco, in close union with Ingauni Albenga perhaps allied with Carthage during the Second Punic War, then, after a period of hostilities with Rome, entered Roman orbit in 180 BC and he accepted its laws. In an undefined period, probably in 89 BC, the Ligurian Intemelia acquires the right and formed a Latin municipium, who was one of the cornerstones of the Romanization of the ancient Liguria. In the year 49 a. C. This Purchase Order finality, with the grant of Roman citizenship by Julius Caesar: Albium Intemelium (the name is marked in Albintimilium from the age of Augustus) Augustus was the last town in the organization considered the Italian administrative ("very great city" Strabo calls it). 
The city flourished, embellished with monuments (see above map), until the fifth century AD, when the result of a destructive or more shares due to barbarian invasions or troubled vicissitudes of time, the city declined rapidly from civil and economic point of view, while the population sought refuge in safer on the hills and valleys surroundings. But the city's tradition, however, did not die, and Ventimiglia, changing its name to Vintimilium , received one of the first bishoprics of Liguria, which preserves the territorial jurisdiction of the Roman municipium. In the sixth century was a castrum, limes Byzantine stronghold of defense against the Lombards, and was able to withstand up to 641, the year of the conquest of Rotari. He became a free commune in the Middle Ages until (in 1261) fell under the dominion of Genoa. Among its illustrious citizens remember the days of Rome Emily M. Bass (II century AD) governor of Judea and G. Giulio Agricola (first century AD), conqueror of Britain. The city was very large so much so that the houses came to Villa Matutiæ (now Sanremo) to the east and west to Menton, using the route of the Via Julia Augusta which was built by Augustus the decumannus. Roman era have been an important theater (see photo below: theater walls and valleys), the remains of houses and spas; of the late Middle Ages: the Cathedral (pictured above) built on a temple of Juno and the Church of S. Michele (also pictured above). 
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