page_title: Centum Prata
section_title: Public Buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Centum Prata / Buildings / Public Buildings
caption_attribution_description: 3rd century AD Roman walls of the former Roman vicus Centum Prata at Kapelle St. Ursula in Kempraten respectively Rapperswil (Switzerland)
context_page_description: Centum Prata is the name of a Roman Vicus, whose remains are located on the eastern Zürichsee lakeshore in Kempraten, a locality of the municipality Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Centum Prata is the most important archaeological site from the Gallo-Roman era in the canton of St. Gallen.
context_section_description: The Forum at the present Meienbergstrasse lane hosted on its eastern side (Rütistrasse) a stone with two distinctive front pillars. The forum was accessible by a wide staircase and by a double door to the main room. The foundations are preserved, as well as the pivots of the door leaf and the locking hole. Due to its central location and the front pillars, the building may also interpreted as a temple. The front of the large square was completed by symmetrical lateral walls. To the west of the plant, there was another stone building with columns, maybe uses as a Curia or temple.
  Public institutions, such as the spas, are suspected at the area of the present cemetery at the St. Ursula church, and a walled temple precinct with two Gallo-Roman temples, a fire altar and two chapels on the northwest of the settlement at the Seewiese area, then the edge of the settlement on Kempratnerbucht. On the exit road (Rütistrasse–Rebacker) towards Vitudurum, a digger fire field with around 50 burials archaeologically was recorded.
caption: cemetery of the St. Ursula chapel
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