Falacrine

Falacrinae (also Vicus Phalacrinae ) was an ancient settlement in Italy in the territory of the Sabines. It was probably the district of Celle Colli today's Italian community Cittareale, where since 2005 under the direction of Giovanna Alvino of the heritage authority of Lazio excavations are carried out.

Falacrinae lay on the Via Salaria, one of the most important north -south connections in ancient Italy. In Falacrinae 9 AD, the future emperor Vespasian was born in the year.

About the exact location of Falacrinae in Italy there was a lot of discussion. The humanist and bishop of Rieti, Mariano Vittori (1518-1572), revised in his book De antiquitatibus Italiae et urbis Reatis the previously held belief Falacrinae was between Greccio and Contigliano, located on the site of the ruined castle of Rocca di Alatri. He situate the location of Falacrinae near the church of San Silvestro in Cittareale. Nevertheless, also claimed the people of Amatrice, also located in the province of Rieti on the Via Salaria, Falacrinae was to be found within their boundaries in the district Torrita. Other places on the Via Salaria, as Antrodoco, and in the Sabine mountains, as Paganico Sabino applicable to his claim, successor of Falacrinae.