Sestianae Arae
Σηστίου Βωμοὶ ἄκρον
Sestianae Arae (called by Ptolemy Σηστίου Βωμοὶ ἄκρον, 2.5.3), the W. promontory of the N. coast of Gallaecia in Hispania Tarraconensis. It had three altars dedicated to Augustus, whence its name. (Plin. Nat. 4.20. s. 34; Mela, 3.1.) It is the present Cabo Villano (Florez, Esp. Sagr. xx. p. 44; Sestini, Med. Isp. p. 103.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.