Three Taverns

Tres Tabernae was an ancient city in the Italian countryside in the Lazio region of today's Cisterna di Latina. He was 33 Roman miles (about 50 km) away from Rome on the Via Appia. Between 1993 and 2001, it has a thermal baths and other buildings uncovered during excavation work on the Via Appia at km 58.1, which belonged to the original Tres Tabernae. In November 2009, the municipality of Cisterna acquired part of the land to continue the excavations. On the Via Appia a documentation center to be set up.

The place is mentioned, among others, in numerous letters Marcus Tullius Cicero and in Acts (Acts 28,15 EU). There was killed on 16 September 307, the Roman emperor Severus. In late antiquity Tres Tabernae was a bishopric; today it is a titular of the Roman Catholic Church.

783269
de