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Fano Furtunae
Fano
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Fanum Fortunae means the shrine of Fortuna, and the town grew up around her sanctuary; the Greek geographer Strabo simply called it the sanctuary of Tyche, her Greek counterpart. Today it is Fano on the Adriatic coast of Italy, where the Via Flaminia reached the sea. Fittingly, the map marks it with a small temple-like building with a gabled roof, showing both its front and one side. Augustus made it a colony of veterans, and his arch of AD 9, later dedicated to Constantine, still stands. The architect Vitruvius built a basilica here and described it in his own writings.