Nero’s Villa Around Rome
Nero villa Rome. The archaeological reputation of the sublacense area is linked to the presence of the large villa that Nero had built along the Aniene; however, there is no lack of data, the most important of which is the identification of a polygonal wall, from which it can be assumed that Subiaco was already an oppidum of the Equi, as can be deduced from some epigraphic evidence, in the late Republican age. Even before Nero, however, the area was known to the Romans, given that three of the nine aqueducts that supplied the capital, namely the Acqua Marcia, the Claudia and the Anio Novus came from the sublacense area. However, it was Nero who, as Frontino says, perhaps reusing a service road for the aqueducts, had the Via Sublacense built to facilitate access to his villa. The ancient road, traced up to Subiaco from the modern one, was kept to the right of the Aniene but in the vicinity of the inhabited center passed on the left, as can be reconstructed based on the discovery of the ancient route;
