Via Laurentina
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The Via Laurentina is the name borne by an ancient and a modern road of Italy, both leading southwards from Rome.
Monument to the julian and dalmatian dead soldiers (1961), erected along the Via Laurentina
Lavinium
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Lavinium was a port city of Latium, 6 km to the south of Rome, midway between the Tiber river at Ostia and Antium. The coastline then, as now, was a long strip of beach. Lavinium was on a hill at the
Gate into the interior of the settlement of the frazione of Pratica di Mare, a medieval walled village at the site of the center of ancient Lavinium. The structures in the photograph vary in date. On the left is the Castello Borghese, possibly the site of the Roman arx or citadel. The archaeological excavations are in a field off to the left of the photograph. The comune of Pomezia and the museum are directly behind the photographer.
Ex voto statues in the museum at Lavinium
Silver denarius struck by C. Sulpicius C. f. Galba in Rome 106 BC. The Di Penates depicted on the obverse were brought to Lavinium from Troy by Aeneas. The reverse depicts a prophecy from the Aeneid: "in the place where a white sow casts thirty piglets under an oak tree, a new city shall be built." A bronze statue of a sow was placed in the forum of Lavinium.