Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the CampagnaBurn, Robert
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Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna
Burn, Robert
Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities; Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel
About a quarter of a mile farther south, near the Latin road, there is an
outlying building which seems to have been intended to command a view of
that road. The railway to Frascati now runs between the Claudian aqueduct
and these ruins.
The castella of the Aqua Marcia, the Tepula, the Julia, the Claudia, the
Anio Vetus, and the Anio Nova lie on the right of the old Latin road here,
at the sixth milestone, where the arcades make a right angle. The old road
then runs to the right of the present road to Frascati, nearly on the line
of the modern Strada di Grotta Ferrata, and ascending the slopes of the
Alban Hills, passes behind Tusculum and Corbio, along the valley called
Vallis Albana.
[Sidenote: Tusculum.]
Since the excavations carried out by Lucien Bonaparte at the beginning of
this century, there has been no doubt left as to the site of the ancient
city of Tusculum. The ruins lie from about a mile and a half to two miles
above Frascati, upon the ridge forming the edge of the most ancient crater
of the Alban Hills. Between this ridge, which bore the name of Tusculani
Colles, and the hills upon which Marino and Rocca di Papa stand, the great
Latin road ran. Tusculum stands just over this road and was approached
from it by a steep path ascending the northern side of the valley. The
main road entered the city on the other side, from the direction of
Frascati and Rufinella, leaving the Via Latina at the tenth milestone,
between Morena and Ciampino. The ancient pavement of this road can be
clearly traced on the slope of the hill above Frascati, and it leads us
along the top of the hill through what has plainly been the main street of
the town to the citadel, which stood at the eastern extremity.
[Sidenote: Theatre.]
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