At 20 km South from Brestovac there is the Roman site of Romuliana, known under the name of the village of Gamzigrad close to which it has been situated. Romuliana the residence of the Emperor Galerius in summer time (291-311) who was born and buried there. At the foot of a plateau spreading to South-West the remnants of a Roman castrum built of little stones and of bricks had been unearthed. Inside the fortress one could take a walk across the floors of villas decorated with mosaics, through the constructions of red brick and the Roman palaces. This location had made the part of Dacia Ripensis from the moment when it had been organized by Emperor Aurelian from III century our era. Placed at the crossing of the important Roman roads this castrum had played a very active role in the surveillance of this region. It was also an administrative centre of collecting the gold from the neighbouring mines, Sill occupied at the beginning of the Byzantine period, Romuliana had been destroyed by Avars in VI century.
The site of Romuliana covers a surface area of 6.5 hectare where Galerius had constructed a fortress with large trenches surrounded by 12 towers. Today still can be seen the West entrance gate and the main trenches. But especially one visits the rectangular palace having been situated North-West from castrum surrounded by 9 columns still well preserved. The atrium has preserved its original floor mosaic. The Roman mosaics in the geometrical shapes representing Adonis or the hunting scenes visible in the vestibule or the ancient thermes. The site marked also by utilising the material like the marble, the rose granite or the green porphyry for the sculptures.
Above the site , on the hill of Magura, a complete holy object in the shape of two tombs and two burial mounds. Here Emperor Galerius and his mother had been burnt into ashes.
