Tusculum
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Tusculum was an ancient Roman city in the Alban Hills, in the Latium region of Italy. Tusculum was most famous in Roman times for the many great and luxurious patrician country villas sited close to t
Archaeological park of Tusculum
Via Labicana (red) via Latina (blue) roads from Rome
Model of upper town (1904)
Roman theatre of Tusculum
Lucullus
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Lucius Licinius Lucullus was a Roman general and statesman, closely connected with Lucius Cornelius Sulla. In culmination of over 20 years of almost continuous military and government service, he conq
Tusculum
…the many great and luxurious patrician country villas sited close to the city, yet a comfortable distance from Rome, notably the villas of Cicero and Lucullus. Tusculum is located on Tuscolo hill on the northern edge of the outer crater rim of the Alban volcano. The volcano itself is located in the Alban Hills…
A summer repast at the house of Lucullus (painting by Gustave Boulanger, 1877)