However, the stretch of the coast road that connects the rural center of Acciarella with Foceverde certainly does not follow the ancient road system, because it is proven that the Via Severiana passed through the settlement of Astura, a town close to the river, but more internal in the pine forest than the site of the current Torre Astura.īefore passing the Astura, the ancient river of Satricum, a pedestrian deviation is possible along the right bank of the river to its mouth, where you will find the pine forest grown on the ancient settlement of Astura and the remains of the roman villa are visible and its port, emerging around the current Torre Astura.Ībout halfway along the route it is possible to see the attack of the eighteenth-century bridge among the vegetation of the opposite bank, which collapsed a few decades after its construction, which in any case signals the previous crossing of the river by a road, almost certainly the Via Severiana, which then it proceeded up to the Torre di Foceverde with a path inside the current military zone.Īlong the banks of the river Volsci and Romans had attested to the port, building mooring docks and trading posts, the remains of which were still visible in the 16th century, when the site functioned as a refuge for light boats. Perhaps the ancient road, forced to take a more tortuous path by the presence of estuaries and low-lying areas, could coincide with sections belonging now to one, now to the other of today's two roads. In the light of known findings it is not possible to identify with certainty the ancient road with the Litoranea or the Lungomare, nor does the often incomplete or confused ancient cartography help us (where the Clostra Romana settlement, a late version of the Clostris statio della Severiana, was example located in different sites even if close).
A.D., to connect Ostia to Terracina using also river and lake passages (the Fossa Augusta of the Neronian age would also be part of it). "The portion of the municipal territory closest to the coast is crossed by two almost parallel roads: the Litoranea and the Lungomare roadįor both the Litoranea and the Lungomare, the hypothesis of an older origin is put forward, as the same area is crossed by the Via Severiana, which was built in the third century. it depends on the area.Īt the beach of Latina there is still a pier from the Roman era: Mainly pottery and Roman bricks but also bronze coins. Have you ever found any Roman artifacts? Yes, those too.
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