| Sublacense Region
The sublacense Area extends along the valley of
the Aniene river, that it slides, in this its first section, between tightened
throats, sluices from mounts that form the chain of the Simbruini Mounts. The
zone, whose more famous centers were Trevi and Affile, in origin was inhabited
from the Equi. They, in alliance with the Volsci, defended to along and accanitamente
their independence against the Romans, but after a secular fight definitively
they were repressed in years 304-302 a.C. The Romans, endured after the conquest,
thought to use waters of the region for use of the City. The aqueducts were
four: the Anio Vetus (begun in the 272 a.C.), the water Marcia, the water Claudia
and the Anio Novus: these last ones were begun from Caligola (38 d.C.) and finished
from Claudius.
The Emperor Nerone, following perhaps the tracing of front natural river basins,
made to block the valley in three points, constituting therefore three artificial
lakes. The original name of Subiaco, Sublaqueum, must to these lakes exactly.
On the right and on the left of the lakes, Nerone made built a huge town house,
and for enter it he made constructed for first the way Sublacense. Emperor Traiano
constructed an other town house on Altipiani of Arcinazzo, and still now you
can see rests remarkable. The emperors who followed did not abandon the existing
constructions in the region: so that to the time of Saint Benedict the imperial
way Sublacense, villas and the aqueducts were still in good conditions.
One of the Niobidi coming from the town house
of Nerone and conserved in the National Museum of Rome
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