Ricina
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Pearce, P. Tozzi Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Pearce, P. Tozzi Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 02, 2026 01:25 PM
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History
A Roman road station along the Via Aemilia Scauri on the Mediterranean coast of Italy, thought to have been located in the vicinty of modern Recco.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383758
44.361906, 9.143844
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: Imagery Location: Center point of the modern town (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Ricina located on Via Aemilia Scauri / Via Aurelia (unspecified date range)
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station (road or coastal), settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 39 E5 Ricina
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Recco?
Not to be confused with the city of Helvia Ricina in Picenum.
M. Pearce, P. Tozzi, R. Talbert, Stefano Costa, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ricina: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/383758> [accessed: 15 October 2026]
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