Antiquity · Day trip
Nikopolis, Octavian's city
The city Octavian founded for his victory at Actium, with a theatre, a stadium and basilicas.
- Founded
- 29 BC, by Octavian
- Victory
- Actium, 31 BC
- Location
- About 5–7 km north of Preveza
- Theatre
- 77 rows of seats
Nikopolis was founded in 29 BC by Octavian to commemorate his victory over Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. Its ruins, also called Palaea Preveza (Old Preveza), lie a few kilometres north of Preveza.
What survives
Large sections of the walls survive, with a theatre of 77 rows of seats, an odeon, the stadium of the Actian Games with room for at least 10,000 spectators, a nymphaeum, baths and an aqueduct with a surviving bridge over the Louros. There are also remains of several Christian basilicas and a Roman villa with mosaics. Finds are shown in the Archaeological Museum of Nikopolis.
