At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the English baron Richard Keppel Craven embarked on his tour through the lands of Molise and decided to stop in a tavern in Altilia to rest the horses. During his short stay, he took the opportunity to get lost among the ancient remains and described the sensations he felt in his book of explorations. The city presented itself in its enchanting amenity, the vestiges of past times coexisted with the rural houses still surrounded by the city walls, in which the four gates opened. Of the monumental entrances, the mighty gateposts remained, partly underground, and only the gate in the direction of the Tammaro valley preserved its monumental arch. In the 1950s Cianfarani rediscovered the large moulded blocks, the fragments of epigraphs, the sculptures and the decorative elements disintegrated and dispersed throughout the farmland and pastures; the study of ancient monuments, carried out in collaboration with the architect Italo Gismondi, allowed the recomposition of the Porta Bojano, a section of the walls and towers, the mausoleum of the Numisi and the definitive anastylosis of the columns of the Basilica. The meticulous recomposition and reconstruction of Porta Bojano, carried out by Gismondi, has made it possible to understand the original configuration of the city gates of Sepino, real triumphal arches that celebrated the power of Augustus’ family, restoring for contemporary travellers the original ideological and propagandistic meaning expressed through the power of images.