Tusculum
Sign in to saveTusculum 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 the city, yet a comfortable distance from Rome, notably the villas of Cicero and Lucullus.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Tusculum
- Ancient site.native_name
- Tusculo
- Ancient site.image
- File:Tusculum visto dall'alto.JPG
- Ancient site.caption
- Archaeological park of Tusculum
- Ancient site.map_type
- Italy
- Ancient site.location
- Frascati, Province of Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Ancient site.region
- Latium
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.abandoned
- 1191 AD
- Ancient site.epochs
- Ancient Roman to High Medieval
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Article
20 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Antiquity
- Roman Republic
- Imperial period
- Roman gentes with origins in Tusculum
- Middle Ages
- Medieval destruction
- Description
- The acropolis
- The forum
- The Theatre
- Amphitheatre
- Cicero's Villa
- Archaeology
- Main sights
- Quotes
- References
- Sources
- External links
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 the city, yet a comfortable distance from Rome, notably the villas of Cicero and Lucullus.
==Location== thumb|Via Labicana (red) via Latina (blue) roads from Rome