Albenga

Albenga is a city situated on the Gulf of Genoa on the Italian Riviera in the province of Province of Savona in Liguria, Italy at 44°03′N 8°13′E. The city is of Celtic origins, the chief town of the Ligures, and flourished as the municipium of Albingaunum under the Roman Empire, owing to its position that offered access from the coast to the interior, and the Via Julia Augusta, the Roman coast road, opened in 13 BCE. A measure of the agricultural prosperity of the region is that Proculus of Albingaunum (executed ca. 281 CE), was able to assemble and arm 2000 of his own slaves from his latifundia to oppose the Emperor Probus during the Crisis of the third century. area code for Albenga: 182