VENTIMIGLIA (Fr. Vintimille, anc.

See also:

• ALBUM (Lat. albus, white)

Album Intimilium or Albintimilium)  , a frontier fortress, seaport and episcopal see of Liguria, Italy, in the province of Porto Maurizio, 94 M . W. by S. of Genoa by rail, and 4 M. from the Franco-Italian frontier, 45 ft. above sea-level . Pop . (1901) 3452 (town); 11,468 (commune) . The present Gothic cathedral is built on the ruins of an earlier Lombard church, and this again on a Roman building, possibly a temple . The ruins of the ancient town are situated in the plain of Nervia, 3 M. to the E. of the modern . It was a municipium with an extensive territory, and of some import-. ante under the Empire, but was plundered by the partisans of Otho in A.D . 69 . Remains of a theatre are visible, and remains of many other buildings have been discovered, among them traces of the ancient city walls, a fine mosaic, found in 1852 but at once lestroyed, and a number of tombs to the west of the theatre . The caves of the Balzi Rossi have proved rich in palaeolithic remains of the Quaternary period . See Notizie degli Scavi, passim, especially 1877, 288 (G . Rossi) .