Velletri
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Velletri is an Italian comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, approximately 40 km to the southeast of the city centre, located in the Alban Hills, in the region of Lazio, central Italy. Neighbouring
Panorama of Velletri
Mount Artemisio overshadows Velletri
The Athena of Velletri, found in a villa near the town.
Triumph of Charles III at the Battle of Velletri by Francesco Solimena. Oil on canvas, 1744.
Volsci
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The Volsci were an Italic tribe, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic. At the time they inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district of the south of Latium, bound
Velletri
…and Lanuvio. Its motto is: Est mihi libertas papalis et imperialis ('Liberty of pope and empire is given to me'). Velletri was an ancient city of the Volsci tribe. Legendarily it came into conflict with the Romans during the reign of Ancus Marcius, the fourth king of Rome; then again in the fifth and fourth…
Volscian settlements (in red)