Gabii

Gabii
Ruins in the residential quarter of Gabii
Shown within Italy
41°53′13″N 12°42′57″E
Type	Settlement
Location	Osteria dell'Osa, Lazio, Italy
Region	Latium
Site notes
Management	Soprintendenza Speciale per il Colosseo, il Museo Nazionale Romano e l'Area Archeologica di Roma
Website	Parco archeologico di Gabii (in Italian)

Ancient Latium. Gabii is directly east of Roma, south of Collatia.

Altar of the Twelve Gods from Gabii, dated to 1st century AD (Louvre, Paris).

Gabii was an ancient city of Latium, located 18 km (11 mi) due east of Rome along the Via Praenestina, known in earlier times as the Via Gabina.

It lies within an archaeological park in which many remains have been recently unearthed.

Gabii was a renowned city and once a powerful rival to Rome, particularly during the early Republican period. In legend it was said to be the place where Rome’s founders Romulus and Remus were educated.

It was sited on the south-eastern perimeter of an extinct volcanic crater lake, approximately circular in shape, named the Lacus Gabinus, and then during later times called the Lago di Castiglione, "lake of the fortification", after Castiglione, a mediaeval tower erected on the site of the ancient acropolis, or arx, of Gabii. A necropolis is adjacent on that side of the lake. At present, the former lake is entirely agricultural land. Gabii is located in the frazione of Osteria dell'Osa 10 km (6.2 mi), in the Province of Rome, Region of Lazio.