Alsium
Ancient city · Italy
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.933, 12.100
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: древний город в Этрурии
History
Alsium was an ancient city on the coast of Etruria, between Pyrgi and Fregenae, on the Via Aurelia, by which it is about 35 km from Rome near the modern Ladispoli. It was one of the oldest towns of Etruria, but did not appear in history until the Roman colonisation of 247 BC. It was never of great importance, except as a resort of wealthy Romans, many of whom had villas there.