In 2010, a rescue excavation took place at Savelletri di Fasano (Brindisi) involving several trenches dug across a vast area along the coastal Savelletri-Monopoli road that was to become a park area and car park. The excavation was undertaken in order to check for the presence of archaeological structures in an area considered to be at risk due to its position in the immediate vicinity of the walls of the Roman town of Egnatia and the presence of a necropolis on land belonging to the adjacent Masseria Cimino. The area in question was initially investigated via the excavation of three parallel trenches, on a north-east/south-west alignment (2m wide and 130 m long). A fourth trench was subsequently opened (76 m long, 16 m wide) in the eastern part of the area, at a right angle to the other trenches, in order to ascertain the continuity and pertinence of several structures that emerged in the individual trenches. The excavation of this large area made it possible to reconstruct a 7m stretch of a road running north-south, parallel to the coastline and characterised by pair of parallel ruts in the bedrock. This section of road can probably be identified as part of the Adriatic coastal road mentioned by Polybius (34.11.8) that in the 3rd century travelled from the Iapygian peninsula (S. Maria di Leuca) to Sena Gallica. In the following century, the Egnatia-Brindisi stretch of this road coincided with the via Minucia the public road, known from one of Horace’s letters (1, 18, 20), that was an alternative to the via Appia. In addition to the road, the excavations exposed sections of wall built of stones and tufa blocks, small channels, cisterns, postholes and sporadic concentrations of finds documenting the site’s occupation between the 3rd century B.C. and the 1st century A.D.