The area in which the baths and the church of San Clemente stand belonged to the suburbio of Albingaunum, which grew up in the early Imperial period on the small plain south of the ancient city (the historic centre of modern Albenga). The archaeological importance of the zone was already known before excavations to widen the bed of the river Centa, between 2001 and 2002, uncovered the baths and the Early Christian complex with the medieval church of San Clemente. Although the archaeological area under investigation only corresponds to a section of the entire bath complex it is still possible to get an idea of how vast it must have been. In fact the structures uncovered develop over an area of at least 2000m2 , along an east-west axis of at circa 60m in length running parallel to the river. The building technique of opus mixtum and the typology of the only mosaic found would seem to date the baths to between the end of the 1st century A.D. and the beginning of the 3rd century. The scarcity of conserved structures and the incomplete archaeological investigation do not consent the balneum of Albingaunum to be attributed with any certainty to a known type. Beginning in the late antique period, perhaps around the first half of the 5th century, an important religious complex, with church, baptismal tank and cemetery, developed over the ruins of the baths. The church, of which only the central, north orientated apse has so far been uncovered, was built over the remains of the caldarium. The baptismal tank situated outside the church is of great importance for the early history of the diocese of Albenga. (Bruno Massabò)