Via Sublacensis

The Via Sublacensis was a Roman road constructed to connect Nero's palace[1] (the Villa Sublacensis) in present-day Subiaco to Rome, splitting off from the Via Valeria[2] near Varia (modern Vicovaro), about 10 km northeast of Tivoli.

It was referred to in relation to the source of the Aqua Anio Novus, a major aqueduct which was originally at the 38th milestone of the Via Sublacensis.[3]

The junction of the Via Sublacensis with the Via Valeria was discovered in 1889 at Casaletti, in the valley below Roviano, during the construction of an aqueduct at a distance from Rome of 36 miles, according to the preserved milestones.[4]

  1. ^ Frontinus, de aquaeductu, 1, 7
  2. ^ Ashby, Thomas (1911). "Valeria, Via" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 858.
  3. ^ Ashby, Thomas (1911). "Aqueduct" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 242.
  4. ^ Zaccaria Mari, Intervento di recupero dell’antica via Valeria e del ponte Scutonico nel territorio di Roviano (Roma), Inaugurazione dell’Area archeologica di Ponte Scutonico lungo il percorso naturalistico della Via Valeria antica e della nuova esposizione archeologica nel Palazzo Brancaccio, Roviano (Rm), Via Tiburtina-Valeria km 56.800 (Ponte Scutonico) - Comune di Roviano e Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio, 29 marzo 2014 - Inaugurazione