The need to prevent water infiltration into the cryptoporticus, provided the occasion for a series of interventions inside and outside of the cult area of Augusta Praetoria, aimed at the consolidation of the building. A first excavation involved the front of the northern arm of the cryptoporticus. The Roman occupation levels were reached were part of a small channel was preserved, formed by two stone forms with a groove in the upper surface, like those which outline the restored perimeter east of the cult area. These elements were used to collect rainwater and their peripheral progression delimits the boundary between the open and the covered areas of the entire forum complex, as attested for example by the tracts found along the eastern edge of the platea. Due to the intensive robbing and the fact that various forms of later re-occupation reached down to underlying sterile levels, the identified stratigraphy dates to post-classical periods, with the exception of traces left by the building works for the cult area. Following the abandonment of the area it is only in the early medieval period that a rectangular building is constructed abutting the crypotoporticus by means of wooden beams. The area was abandoned again and became rural, until it became a formal garden in the first half of the 16th century which has largely survived up to the present. (Patrizia Framarin, Mauro Cortelazzo)