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The essay presents the results of a joint study of astronomy and archeologythat has allowed to define the foundation date of the city of Turin as a Romancolony, called Iulia Augusta Taurinorum. This multidisciplinary researchrepresents a new reading of the historical-archaeological sources and the useof astronomy according to the Etruscan-Latin gromatica. By taking intoconsideration the apparent motion of a True Sun, the possible measurementerrors, the atmospheric refraction and the elevation of the horizon, and theJulian date in use in astronomy, a numerical program has been elaborated todefine the coincidences of the calendars between the azimuth of the main roadaxis and the course of the sun. For a series of very particular historical andcontextual conditions it was therefore possible to trace with sufficientaccuracy the day and the year of foundation of the city: January 30, 9 BC,which coincides, not surprisingly, with a particularly important anniversaryfor Ottaviano Augusto, Emperor from 27 BC to 14 AC. In fact, the astronomicaldata interfaced with the archaeological, epigraphic and written sources suggestthat Turin was born at the end of the Alpine wars, concluded after theacquisition of the Valle di Susa and, more extensively, of the Maritime Alps,Pennine and Graie. Founded as a colony along the road leading to the Gauls,Augusta Taurinorum was inaugurated on the day of the anniversary of the feastof Pax, established by Augustus and celebrated at the Ara Pacis in Romestarting from 9 BC. The large marble altar of Campo Marzio was, as matter offact, built to celebrate the end of civil wars and the beginning of a new era(confirmed also by the astrological/astronomical ephemerides of that time),which is widely reported in the official Augustean literature.

Dating the foundation of Augusta Taurinorum ex sole. The augustean propaganda and the role of Astronomy