Via Praenestina

The Via Praenestina of Rome

The Via Praenestina ("Prenestinian Road") is a Roman road that leads through the Roman Campagna past the remains of the ancient Roman city of Gabii and Lake Trasimeno over a length of about 37 km from Rome to Palestrina , the ancient city of Praeneste . It was initially called Via Gabina because it initially ended in Gabii before being extended to Praeneste. The road continued towards the Apennines and the source of the Anio and ended behind Fiuggi , in the area of the Torre Cajetani . In Frontinus this Roman road is related to the source of the Aqua Appia mentioned. Near Gabii, the road crossed a valley by means of the 95-meter-long, seven-arched bridge Ponte di Nona (“Bridge on the ninth mile”) made of peperine and red tuff.

The Porta Maggiore was called Porta Praenestina until the Middle Ages , as the road led to the gate.

Via Praenestina is now part of the Italian long-distance network as Via Prenestina (SP13C).

literature

Giuseppe Tomassetti: La campagna romana antica medioevale e moderna. Volume 3: Via Cassia e Clodia, Flaminia e Tiberina, Labicana e Prenestina (= Arte e archeologia - Studi e documenti. Volume 14). New and revised edition, edited by Ferdinando Bilancia and Luisa Chiumenti. Olschki, Florence 1979, ISBN 9788822228789 .
Konrad Miller : Itineraria Romana. Roman routes are represented by the Tabula Peutingeriana. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1916, column 325 line 56 ( digitized version ).
Carlo Villa: Le strade consolari di Roma. Newton & Compton, Rome 1995, pp. 80-83.

Web links

Commons : Via Praenestina - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Via Praenestina (Rome) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Anne Kahane, John B. Ward-Perkins : The Via Gabina. In: Papers of the British School at Rome. Volume 40, 1972, pp. 91-126.
↑ Strabo , Geography 5,3,10 in combination with Livius 2,11,7; 3,6,7; 5.49.6.
^ Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 566 fsv Via Praenestina .
^ Curt Merckel : The engineering technology in antiquity. Springer, Berlin 1899, p. 244 ( digitized version ); A Walk to Ponte di Nona along Via Prenestina (English).

[1] Anne Kahane, John B. Ward-Perkins : The Via Gabina. In: Papers of the British School at Rome. Volume 40, 1972, pp. 91-126.

[2] Strabo , Geography 5,3,10 in combination with Livius 2,11,7; 3,6,7; 5.49.6.

[3] Samuel Ball Platner , Thomas Ashby : A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, London 1929, p. 566 fsv Via Praenestina .

[4] Curt Merckel : The engineering technology in antiquity. Springer, Berlin 1899, p. 244 ( digitized version ); A Walk to Ponte di Nona along Via Prenestina (English).