On the southeastern slopes of the Istrian Peninsula, above the Budava Bay, at the tip called Vižace, remains of a prehistoric, ancient and classical Roman town have been preserved through centuries. Nesactium was first mentioned in ancient written sources (Titus Livius, XLI, II, 4-16), while the find at the beginning of this century of the sacrificial altar dedicated to Emperor Gordius (3rd c. AD) with the inscription Res Publica Nesactiensium provided a material evidence of Vižace representing remains of an ancient town with a glorious past. >