Carnuntum is among the largest archaeological landscape in Central Europe with the Roman town covering more than ten square kilometres of area in antiquity. Carnuntum had a prominent position along the Danube Limes. Between the 1st and 4th century AD Carnuntum grew into a city of about 50,000 inhabitants and became the capital of the Roman province of Pannonia Superior with a flourishing civilian city (municipium aelium karnuntum) outside the military quarters. Nowadays, almost the entire Roman town is still preserved under fields and vineyards some 40 km to the east of Austria’s capital Vienna.
