Tusculum
Ruins · Italy
- Abandoned
- 1191
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.798, 12.711
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Latin and Roman city and archeological site in the Alban Hills of Latium, Italy
History
Tusculum was an ancient Roman city in the Alban Hills, in the Latium region of Italy. Tusculum was most famous in Roman times for the many great and luxurious patrician country villas sited close to the city, yet a comfortable distance from Rome, notably the villas of Cicero and Lucullus.