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Centum Cellis
Civitavecchia
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Centum Cellis, whose name means a hundred chambers, was the harbour the emperor Trajan laid out in 106 or 107 AD on the coast of Etruria, where Civitavecchia stands in Italy today. The map marks it with four long, parallel buildings with gabled roofs, doors and windows, apparently more than any similar drawing on the Tabula shows: the warehouses of the harbour quarter. Pliny the Younger and the poet Rutilius Namatianus both described the harbour, curved like an amphitheatre and sheltered by a small island. After Saracens destroyed the town in 812, its people moved inland, and the abandoned site became known as the old city.