A handbook of Rome and the Campagna (1899) (14579363177)

Identifier: handbookofromeca00john (find matches)
Title: A handbook of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: John Murray (Firm)
Subjects: Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. further passes over the Civita Vecchia Rly. (In a hollow, immediately beyond the 2ud milestone, it crosses the ancient Via Latina, which issued from the Porta Latina, now closed(Rte. 41). The farm on the 1. of the road,extending to the arches of the Aqua Claudia, is called the Tenuta deWArco Travertino or del Corro—names derived from one of the large travertine arches of the aqueduct, and from Corvinus, a Roman who had possessions hereabouts. In 1850 were discovered extensive substructions of a Roman villa, which, at the end of the2nd cent., belonged to Marcus Servilius Silanus, and in the 4th cent,was the property of the illustrious Anician family. These remains in-eluded portions of mosaic, stuccoes,and frescoes, very fine slabs of marble, coins, and vases. Soon afterwards was revealed the pavement of the Via Latina, The road itself consists as usual of polygonal blocks of lava, much worn, with a wide footway, whose careless manner of construction betrays the date of the later Empire. APR
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