Summary: Strongholds, imperial palaces, wealthy city districts, thriving trades, a melting pot of civilizations and the signs of the different religious influences and of the new inspirations coming from Rome and from the East: all these images come to our mind when we think of the "splendour of Roman Serbia". These territories enjoyed an extraordinary growth between the 3rd and 4th centuries, and were homeland to as many as 17 or 18 emperors, from Hostilian to Constantius III, including Constantine the Great, who was born in Naissus (Niš). Serbia saw the rise of monumental imperial residences, like Felix Romuliana, today's Gamzigrad, and of new cities, like Sirmium, now Sremska Mitrovica, which included a circus, a sign that the earlier urban settlement had grown into an important metropolis. As a further step in the path of the project "Wounded Archaeology", with this new exhibition in Palazzo Meizlik in Aquileia sixty precious artefacts from the National Museum of Belgrade and other Serbian museums are exhibited to tell the history of Roman Serbia. While the territory of present-day Serbia fell into three different Roman provinces, it was affected by the same strategic and military needs, which caused the strengthening of the defensive system on the Danube boundary and the powerful growth of the urban centres and of other peripheral settlements. A large share of the Roman emperors who ruled between the 3rd and 4th centuries were native from those places, which they honoured with the construction of impressive residences.

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