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Hostilia
Ostiglia (Italy), river port on the Po
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Hostilia, now Ostiglia, was a river port on the Po, and the map marks it as the place where travellers leave the road: beside a line running on to Ravenna it writes from Hostilia along the Po, meaning by boat. Even the road there is spelled out in words, from Verona to Hostilia, thirty-three miles. The Roman writer Pliny tells that people here loaded their beehives onto boats and moved them upriver at night, so that the bees found fresh flowers every morning.
Fully based on scientific information from TP-Online (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). More on Wikipedia.
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