Petinesca
Petinesca is an
archeological site on the territory of Studen, a community of the Canton of Bern
, in Switzerland, where Celtic and Roman vestiges were found.
Celtic and Roman vestiges
The site lies at the SE edge of the
Roman empire
, as a regional centre dating back to the 2nd Century B.C. till the 4th Century A.D.
Ruins of the Petinesca Roman station
In those times the area was already well colonised.
Petinesca was most certainly one of the
Roman road in Helvetii. The road led from Aventicum (Avenches) through Murten, Kerzers and Kallnach to Salodorum (Solothurn) and then to Vindonissa (Windisch), along the Eastern part of the Seeland. A bifurcation of the road ran through the steep gorge of Taubenloch and crossed the Jura through the Col de Pierre Pertuis pass and to Augusta Raurica which led to Germany along the Rhine
.
Via
lake of Murten
.
See also
References
- Petinesca in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
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