Torre Astura

Local nameTorre Astura
LocationNettuno, Italy

Torre Astura, formerly an island called by the ancients merely Astura, is now a peninsula in the comune of Nettuno, on the coast of Latium, Italy, at the southeast extremity of the Bay of Antium, on the road to Circeii. The name also belongs to a medieval coastal tower in the same site, as well as to the river which rises at the southern foot of the Alban Hills, and has a course of about 33 km before flowing into the sea immediately to the southeast.It was called Storas by Strabo, who tells us that it had a place of anchorage at its mouth. It was on the banks of this obscure stream that was fought, in 338 BC, the last great battle between the Romans and the Latins, in which the consul Gaius Maenius totally defeated the combined forces of Antium, Lanuvium, Aricia and…

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Torre Astura, Nettuno … @ Alessio Antonietti

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_Astura

Address Italy

Coordinates 41°24'28.141" N 12°45'53.613" E

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