While farmers and shepherds preserve daily agro-pastoral practices, other needs move explorers to discover the city. The arrival of nineteenth-century travellers, engaged in personal Grand Tours, has sparked a different interest in ancient remains. Starting from the second half of the nineteenth century, what the land and rural dwellings had long preserved gradually re-emerged: the Basilica and the buildings north of the Forum were rediscovered, Mommsen published his rich epigraphic study, the photographs of Mackey, Musa and Trombetta captured the superimposed experience of the reconfigured landscape, between the rural and ancient worlds. In the 1950s Valerio Cianfarani rediscovered and restored a large portion of the urban fabric, uncovering most of the structures visible today and collecting the material dispersed on the ground. The passage of the publicly owned Tratturo (sheep track) through the urban area made it possible to operate on terrain that was free from property constraints, on which the major public and sacred buildings stood. Starting from the 1970s, the archaeological investigations of the Superintendence began, carried out in collaboration with the Universities, which over the years have made it possible to increase the knowledge of the ancient city and its territory.