Via Labicana

The Via Labicana ( now called the Via Casilina ) is an ancient Roman road in Italy. She began east-southeast of Rome and led by Tusculum and the eponymous town Labici.

From the center, the road led by the still existing Porta Esquilina in the Servian Wall from the regal period and left the city at Porta Praenestine (today Porta Maggiore).

In a situated on this road Villa of Livia Drusilla a statue of Augustus was found in 1910 as Pontifex Maximus, the eponymous comparable for a group statues was ( Via Labicana - type). Today, the statue is located in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in the National Roman Museum.

On the third milestone this road was built a basilica with adjoining mausoleum for his mother, Helena, Constantine.

On the fifth milestone Emperor Didius Julianus was buried after his execution 193.

Augustus Statue

• Traffic ( Roman Empire )
• Street in Rome
• Abgegangenes building in Rome