The site
The fortress occupies an area of 23.4 ha, belonging to the group of the medium-size legionary fortresses. The fort wall had a perimeter of almost 2 km and its construction needed circa 25000 m3 of stone from the quarry at Sanduleşti. In the four corners of the fortress were trapezoidal-shaped bastions, and along each side was a gate. Via principalis, which provides access to the porta principalis dextra and porta principalis sinistra, was about 10 m wide. The whole fortress area was judiciously used (the cereal warehouses/horrea, the soldier's barracks of cohorts quingenaria and milliaria, the acces roads etc.) so as to ensure all the supplies for over 5000 soldiers of the legion. The most important building examined archaeologically is that of the headquarters (principia).
The thermal baths, with an area of over 2,000 m2, are the biggest military thermae'' known in Dacia.
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