DOOR OF TAUCHEIRA AND PREGNANT

Go south, on 200 m, to the door of Taucheira with its two towers, dating from the th century B.C., like the construction of the rampart and the old street trail. The Ptolemais area, restored in Roman then Byzantine times, draws a quadrilateral about 1 450 m east and 1 700 m from the shore to the first slopes of the mountains. Larger than that of Apollonia, it is in fact gigantic compared to the area occupied by the city in the centre. To explain this phenomenon, archaeologists argued that the remaining space was used, in the event of attacks, to protect neighbouring populations or to shelter military troops.